Edwin Alexander
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War Memorial: Place
and inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial: A/B E. Alexander RN
St
Laurence Blackmore Window: Edwin
Alexander
Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) [ERO A10815]
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Rank:
Able
Seaman
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Regiment:
H.M.
Submarine "E36". Service
No:J/12975 [CWGC]
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Service Details:
-
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Personal and family
information:
Foster
son of Emma Bass, of Vine Cottage, Blackmore, Ingatestone, Essex. [CWGC]
Little
is known about Edwin Alexander. The most local Birth is Sep 1895. Alexander
Edwin James. Hackney. 1b 540. [statutory register]
1901
Census: Emma Bass (aged 44, born Radwinter), foster mother to Edwin
Alexander, is recorded as living in ‘Cottage’ somewhere near to the Post
Office in Blackmore village. She was
married to Jabez Bass (aged 54, born Little Dunmow) and at that time had two
foster children: Horton Wright (age 7, born Blackmore) and Dora Lynn (age 1,
born London).
Emma
Bass, Chelmsford Road, was baptised as an adult at The Baptist Church,
Blackmore, on 31st May 1896 and received into membership the
following week [ERO T/B 324/1].
Emma
Bass listed as voter (for the first time) in the Electoral Register for
Blackmore in 1918. Emma recorded as
living in ‘The Village’. Other Bass named is Jabez (husband). [ERO C/E
2/1/1].
It
is not clear whether the fostering arrangement implied any relationship to
Edwin Alexander.
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Date of Death:
19th
January 1917 [CWGC]
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Age:
23
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Where died:
HMS
E36 was sunk in a collision with HMS E43 off Harwich in the North Sea. There
were no survivors.
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Place of Burial or
Commemoration:
Memorial:
Chatham Naval Memorial. Grave No: 21 [CWGC]
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List of Sources:
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office,
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Mrs Bass
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