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Personal data

• Name BALL
• Initials E
• First name EDWARD
• Place of birth St. George's
• Country Shropshire, England
• Last residence St. George's
• Family Son of Joseph and Susannah Ball, of 6, Rookery, St. George's, nr. Wellington, Salop; five sisters, Martha, Elizabeth, Sarahann, May and Maud; two brothers, William and Harold;
• Profession Coal miner at the Granville Colliery

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment November 1914, Wellington
• Service number 15359
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 6th Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 60th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 20th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from 9th - Bn. -
• Other data related to military career to France on 8 August 1915

Death

• Wounded 12 February, nissen hut hit by German shell fire; 19 killed and 46 wounded;
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 13 February 1916
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - D - 45A

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