Edwin George Bacon

Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945

Rank and number: Corporal 5191485

Parents: George and Alice Bacon

Home address: 4 The Avenue, Yate, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Shop Assistant Bristol Co-op Society

Date of birth: 08/08/1912

Date of death: 23/11/1944

Buried/Commemorated at: Taukkyan War Cemetery (Ref. 7. A. 9), Burma

Age: 32

Further information:

He lived with his widowed mother and younger brother Cyril an electrical engineering clerk in Yate in 1939 and to begin with both brothers were air raid wardens.

Edwin signed up with the Gloucestershire Regiment (10th Battalion) and was killed fighting the Japanese 18th Imperial Division at the Battle of Pinwe in Burma, when his company was hit by heavy Japanese mortar and gun fire.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/war-diary-10th-bn-gloucestershire-regiment.14991/