Edmund (Samuel) Alfred Luton

Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church

Regiment: Hampshire Regiment

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 40088

Parents: Arthur John and Edith Ellin Luton

Home address: Salisbury Road, Downend, Bristol

Date of birth: 1898

Place of birth: Stapleton, Bristol

Date of death: 10/04/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Jerusalem Memorial, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza) and Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial

Age: 19

Further information:

Edmund (Samuel ) Alfred Luton was born in Stapleton a middle child of 12 children. One of his younger sisters died at the age of 12 months. Edmund was registered at birth as Edmund Alfred but changed his name to Samuel Alfred on joining the army. His father worked originally as a coal miner in Wales but moved the family to Bristol where he worked as a labourer. At the age of 12 Edmund was an inmate of The National Nautical School in Portishead, which was a home for destitute and neglected boys in Bristol.

Samuel (Edmund) served with the 2nd/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, his regiment went out to Egypt as part of the Expeditionary Force and fought in operations in the Jordan Valley (19 February – 4 May) which included several unsuccessful attempts at capturing Amman.

During these operations, Samuel (Edmund) was initially reported as missing but this was later changed to killed in action. He is remembered on Jerusalem Memorial, which commemorates 3,300 Commonwealth servicemen who died during WW1 in operations in Egypt or Palestine and who have no known grave.

Note – He is EA Luton on the Kingswood Memorial.

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/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/