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Captain Edward George Clarkson Bagshawe was killed in action in Flanders, Belgium, on 20 Jul 1916 aged 36 while serving with the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, sometimes referred to as the Beverley Terriers. Edward is buried at La Laiterie Military Cemetery near Ypres.
Edward was born in Hampstead, London on 17 Sep 1879, the son of William Henry Gunning Bagshawe and Hariett Theresa (nee Stansfield), William was a barrister and later a County Court Judge. In 1902 Edward joined the Army becoming a Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment based in Richmond, North Yorkshire. He served in the latter stages of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War in South Africa in 1902, being mentioned in dispatches and becoming a staff officer. He was awarded the Queen’s Medal. By 1911 he had retired and was living in Kensington, London, with his unmarried sisters and his widowed mother.
At the outbreak of war Edward returned to service with the Yorkshires and was given a Captain’s commission. He arrived in France in Apr 1915 and took part in actions with the 5th at St Julien and Bellewarde in the Ypres. In 1916 he was involved in actions at Kemmell, the railway dugouts and Sanctuary Wood.He died on 20 Jul 1916. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals as well as the 1914-15 Star.
At the time of his death his home was 13 Campden House Road, Kensington, at the home of Captain Herman Kentigern Bicknell (who was killed in action in Mesopotamia in 1917) and his wife Harriet Frances, a Red Cross nurse. In his will his money and belongings were left to her.
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