Dawlish World War One Project

In time, Edward joined the 4th Wessex Brigade, Ammunition Column of the Royal Field Artillery, and was a gunner with service number 1762. If he had given his true age when enlisting, that would have been no earlier than Q3,1914.

The following report appeared in the Western Times on Monday 3 May, 1915:

“The internment took place on Saturday afternoon in Dawlish Cemetery, of Edward Mudge, of the 4th Wessex, R.F.A., who died at Dawlish Red Cross Hospital on the previous Thursday."
The UK Register of Soldiers' Effects shows cause of death to have been Brights disease, a chronic inflammation of blood vessels in the kidneys.

Edward Mudge was the youngest child of Charles Mudge (1861-1896),a general labourer, and Ellen Blackmore (1866- ) who were married in Exeter in Q1 1888. (N.A. Q1, 1888, vol 5b, p174).

Edward was born in 2 Queen Lane, on 22 August 1896 and registered by his mother with the single name, Edward.

Ellen Mudge married again in Q3, 1910 to Thomas E Williams (1846-1915), a bootmaker who was a widower after his first wife, Jane, (1846-1895) had died.(N.A. Vol 5b, p62, Q3, 1895).
In 1911, Thomas and Ellen Williams were living at 37 Manor Row, Dawlish with Edwin Mudge, 14, an errand boy to a fishmonger.