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Pte. Edward Raynor Midgley
British Army 9th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Todmorden
(d.27th September 1917)
Edward Midgley was one of about 450 casualties at Dickebusch near Ypres on 27th September 1917. His body was not found and he is listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial where his brother John Thomas Midgley is also listed.
He was 24 years old. He was the uncle of Harry Mortimer the brass band conductor and radio personality who told how the two uncles, along with his aunt Mary Eliza Mortimer of the Women's Service, managed to have a reunion in Belgium not long before Edward's death.