Edwin Rubin Carr
Memorial: Badminton Memorial Hall - Hayes Lane
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Private 5179798
Parents: Edward George and Jane Louisa Carr
Marital status: Married
Home address: Didmarton
Date of birth: 1909
Date of death: 27/05/1940
Buried/Commemorated at: Cassel Communal Cemetery Extension, Cassel France. Commemorated on St Michael’s and all Angels Memorial Badminton
Age: 31
Further information:
Edwin was the 2nd youngest child of 7 children and his father was a farm labourer. He married Gladys Lowe, of Kingsdown Bristol, in 1933 and had 5 children. Sadly, his elder brother Albert was also a WW2 casualty. Edwin was in France with the British Expeditionary Force when on May 25th the 2nd Glosters reached the town of Cassel which was part of the Dunkirk-Cassel-Hazebrouck line. They had been instructed to hold the western half of the town, along with the 1st Bucks, at all costs, to allow the B.E.F. to be evacuated from Dunkirk. On 27th May the battalions came under heavy German attack and were surrounded. Those that were not casualties were forced to surrender.
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/
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/the-glorious-glosters-cassel-1940.12703/