TAYLES, EDWIN. Lance Corporal. 19139. 10th. Service Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.
Edwin Tayles was killed in action on the 28th. April 1917, aged 20, when the Battalion attacked the village of Roeux, suffering it heaviest losses of the war 204 men killed in action.
He is buried in Roeux British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Row D, Grave 60 alongside 81 of his comrades who died that day.
Born in Horncastle, he enlisted at Spilsby giving his place of residence as Alford.
The 1911 census records Edwin aged 14, sister Elsie, and brothers Charles R. and James Edward living with their uncle William Tayles, in Ashby by Partney.
He was the son of Sarah Ann and William Tayles of Toynton All Saints, who received his soldiers, effects £8-11-3d and war gratuity £8.
Remembered with honour on the Alford War Memorial in the grounds of St Wilfrid’s Church on the Memorial Plaque to the outside of the former Methodist Chapel, and Horncastle War Memorial in side St. Mary’s Church.
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