11129 Private Edgar Henry King
9th(Service)Battalion
Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916
Born in Minehead Somerset in 1896.He was baptised on 02/02/1896.
His parents were Thomas Emanuel King(1837-1896) and Mary Jane Knight(1864-24/06/1951).
They married on 05/10/1886. Thomas was a widower, who had previously married Betsy Sprague on 13/06/1859).
Edgar had 4 brothers; William Thomas(born on 06/11/1887), John Henry Knight(1892-1893),
Edgar Henry(1893-1894)* and Alfred Edward( born in 1894).
He also had 2 sisters; Ethel Mary (born 23/11/1891) and Eva Francis(born in 1891).
In the 1901 census, the family was living at Shutewater, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset. Mary Jane was working as a charwoman as her husband, Thomas a carpenter by trade had died in 1896.
She would remarry in 1912 to John Winsborough.
In the 1911 census, records Edgar boarding at 5 Hamwood Cottages, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset,
whilst working as an errand boy.
He enlisted in Minehead and his date of disembarkation into France was on 14/09/1915.
He was killed in action on 01/07/1916.
Edgar was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the 1914-1918 British War and Allied Victory medals.
* With thanks to Ken Turrell for the additional information.