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Pte. Edward David Pugh
British Army 20th Battalion (Blackheath and Woolwich) London Regiment
from:London
(d.28th Jan 1917)
Edward enlisted into the 20th Blackheath and Woolwich Rifleman and went to fight in France and Flanders fields. As the army were stuck in their trenches, Edward wrote a letter to his mother telling her about where he was saying that the trenches weren't as nice as the drawing room at home and he told his mother he loved her. His battalion advanced and they were under attack, Edward was killed on 28/1/1917, nineteen days after writing his letter to his family. Edward David Pugh is remembered with honours in the Lissenthoek military cemetery.