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Edward Welburn was aged 19 when he enlisted in the army in Hull on 19 Apr 1915. He joined the Royal Field Artillery (RFA), the 32nd Hull Divisional Ammunition Column, he served as a Driver and after promotion in 1918 as a Bombardier. In civilian life he was employed as a farm waggoner and those skills were called upon in the RFA. He arrived in France from Southampton on 30 Dec 1915 and remained there until after the end of the war when he then took part in the occupation of Germany from 2 Apr 1919 to 29 May 1919. He returned to the UK and was discharged at the end of Mar 1920. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals as well as the 1914-15 Star.
Edwards role was to bring ammunition and shells to the frontline. An 19 Jun 1916 he received an unspecified wound in action. He also suffered a serious accident in Apr 1919 when he was thrown from a mule and dragged for some distance with his foot was caught in the stirrup. He suffered a "severe compound fracture of the lower jaw", according to his service records.
Edward was born in Jan 1896 in Middleton-on-the Wolds and baptised in the parish church the 12 Jan 1896, the son of John Henry Welburn, a farm foreman and Annie Eliza (nee Hand). On leaving school he became a farm worker at Bushey Hill Farm, North Newbald. The family moved from Newbald to the area north east of Driffield during the war. By 1939 Edward was a Radio Relay Foreman living in Lincoln. He married Olga M Tye in 1938. Edward died in Lincoln in Dec 1972.
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