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| Captain Edward Croxall WHITEHEAD | |
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2/101st Grenadiers, Indian Army Date of birth: 22nd August 1898 Date of death: 18th June 1922 Died aged 23 Unknown |
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| Edward Croxall Whitehead was born Pembridge in Herefordshire on the 22nd of August 1898 the youngest son of the Reverend Francis Whitehead, Rector of Pembridge and Ellen Frances Webb (nee Atkins) Whitehead of Pembridge. He was educated at Lancing College from September 1912 to July 1916 where he was a Scholar and was in News House. He gained his school certificate in 1915. On leaving school he went to the Wellington Cadet College in India from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on the 24th of June 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 18th of June 1918 and to Acting Captain while in command of a Company of the 2/101st Grenadiers on the 15th of September 1919. He was promoted to Captain on the 18th of June 1921. He died of fever at Bannu on the North West Frontier . He is commemorated on a plaque at St Mary’s Church, Pembridge. |
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