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Second Lieutenant Edward Myles Meredith

 

 

Meredith

 

2nd Lieutenant Edward Myles Meredith of Church Street, Antrim, enlisted as a Private in the North Irish Horse on 7 April 1915. Born in Dublin around 1893, he was the son of Charles and Jane Meredith of Tankardstown, Carlow, and the husband of Mrs A.E. Meredith. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 26 September 1916. Posted to the 21st Squadron, which was flying R.E.8s in an artillery spotting and reconnaisance role, Meredith was killed in a flying accident on 13 April 1918. He is buried in Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II.B.8. The gravestone inscription reads:

SECOND LIEUTENANT

E. M. MEREDITH

ROYAL AIR FORCE

13TH APRIL 1918

 

Gravestone image kindly provided by Mick McCann, through his British War Graves website www.britishwargraves.co.uk. Image of 2nd Lieutenant Meredith from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, May 1918, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).