No.27789, Corporal, Edmund TALBOT
Aged 31
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Edmund George Talbot was born in Brandon (Thetford Q1-1886 4B:397),baptised St Peter's, Brandon on 3rd April 1887, son of William Rawling and Sarah Annie TALBOT (née HAZEL). 1891 census...Aged 5, he was at High Street, Brandon with his father William Rawling TALBOT [47] cabinet maker; his mother Sarah Annie [44] born in Abingdon, Berkshire; sisters Helen M [18], Emily M [13], Alice L [9], Gertrude F [6] and Annie E [3]; brothers Frederick W [11], Albert E [10], Charles H [6] and Herbert William [4]. All except his mother were born in Brandon. 1901 census...Aged 15, a domestic page, he was at Bridge Street, Brandon with his parents (father an upholsterer) and brother Herbert W (domestic page).. The rest of the siblings appear to have left home. 1911 census...Aged 25, he is likely to be the footman at Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard. His parents were at 60 Bury Road, Brandon with 2 boarders. |
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He attested in Norwich.
He served in the 2nd and then the 6th Battalions, Norfolk Regiment before being transferred to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The 6th Dublin Fusiliers had served in Gallipoli and moved to Salonika in September 1915. They were reinforced by men drafted in from other regiments, exposure and disease had caused many casualties. On the 3rd October 1916, the 6th and 7th R.D.F together with the Royal Munster Fusiliers were in the front line and ordered to take the village of Jenikoj ( near the River Struma, half way from Lake Butkovo and the sea) They were successful and advanced, then were caught between their own artillery and the Bulgarian counter-attack. Confused orders resulted in some men being withdrawn, others remaining and the exhausted soldiers were again sent to retake the village. 385 men were killed, wounded or missing, several from our own artillery fire; 131 of them were 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. CWGC records have 17 of the 6th RDF killed on the 3rd October 1916.
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