| 👶 Birth | 07 Dec 1895 | Corsham, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘGillian Cornish 🏛️ National Trust founded |
| 🏠 Lived | 1901 (6) | Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View In 1901 he was staying with his Grandfather 🏛️ Second Boer War · Death of Queen Victoria — Edward VII accedes |
| 🏠 Lived | 1911 (16) | 38 High Street, Tewkesbury, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘ1911 Census 📎 View 🏛️ National Insurance Act |
| 💼 Occupation | 1914 (19) | Butcher 38 High Street, Tewkesbury, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘGillian Cornish 🏛️ First World War |
| 💼 Occupation | 1915 (20) | Private 242152 of Worcestershire Regiment 10th Bn. |
| ✝️ Death | 20 Sep 1917 (22) | Passchendaele, Ypres, West Vlaanderen, Belgium 📍 Commemorated in Tewkesbury at the Cross and in the Abbey, and in Twyning ⓘGillian Cornish 📎 View |
| 🪦 Burial | 20 Sep 1917 (22) | Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Leper, Flanders, Belgium 📍 Buried on the battlefield and body not recovered or identified but remembered with honour at Panel 75 to 77 ⓘfindagrave.com 📎 View The headstone of his parents grave at Earls Croom in Worcestershire reads: In Loving Memory of EDWIN ERNEST CORNISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST 21ST. 1921 AGED 52 YEARS. ALSO OF ALBERT HENRY SON OF THE ABOVE KILLED IN ACTION SEPT.R 20TH 1917 AGED 21 YEARS. "WAITING IN A HOLY STILLNESS WRAPT IN SLEEP." NAOMI ANN CORNISH, BELOVED WIFE AND MOTHER AGED 95 YEARS RE-UNITED APRIL 16TH 1964. |
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