Edwin's Story.
Birkenhead News 18 May 1918
ONLY A WEEK IN FRANCE.
Mrs. Williams, of Ivy Cottage, Hillside, Heswall, has received word from the War Office that her only son, Pte. Edwin Williams, aged 19 years, of the Machine Gun Corps, was killed in action on April 22nd. Pte. Williams joined the Army in May, 1915, being then only 16 years of age. He had been training at Knowsley Park, Ripon, Yorks., and Mansfield, Notts., and while there was a bandsman. He proceeded to France on April, 14th, and was killed within a week of arrival. Before joining the Army Pte. Williams was employed by Mr. Miles Forwood of Gayton, as a gardener, and attended the Parish Church. As a boy he was a scholar of the Church School, the flag of which has been at half-mast as a mark of respect to his memory.
For four years he was a member of the Parish Church Choir. Letters and many expressions of sympathy has been received by his widowed mother and only sister in their sad bereavement.