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Persoonsgegevens

  • MOMBER
  • EMF
  • EDWARD MARIE FELIX
  • Biarritz
  • France
  • Son of Frederick Ernest Robert and Eugenie Momber (nee Ardoin), of Hermitage, Biarritz, France.
  • Stubbington House, Cheltenham College, Woolwich
  • Military man
  • Two mine craters named after him on the western front - one at Vimy from 1916 when he commanded 176th Tunnelling Company and one at Railway Wood from 1917 when he commanded 177th Tunnelling Company

Militaire dienst

  • Major
  • D S O, M C
  • 177th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
  • ?
  • B.E.F.
  • Commissioned in 1907; served as adjutant of a fortress company, R.E. at Hong-Kong; to France December 1914; promoted Captain and formed a tunnelling coy; temporary Major in December 1915; D.S.O. for 'conspicious gallantry and skill in connexion with mining operations.'
    Blown up and left deafened by a trench mortar bomb at Vimy Ridge.

Overlijden

  • Messines Ridge, 18 June
  • Died of wounds
  • 20 June 1917
  • 29
  • XIII - A - 19

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