Edward Edmonds served with the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force in WWI. His service number was 1607 and he held the rank of Private.
He was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917 aged 22 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
His name is located at panel 112 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
‘Maylands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia’ was recorded as his ‘place of association’.
Search the Australian War Memorial website https://www.awm.gov.au/
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