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PILE, Edwin C (1899 – 1918)

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Full Name: Edwin Charles PILE

Nationality: British

Rank: Private

Service: King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

Unit: 7th Battalion

Age at Death: 19

Date of Death: 21 Aug 1918

Service Number: 27803

Memorials: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France and Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK

Reference: Panel 8

CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1747716/PILE,%20EDWIN%20CHARLES

EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1747716/

Edward was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1899, the third child of Lewis Pile and his second wife, Eliza Wills.

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae, May 1915