Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 124   Volume 5: January 1916 (Warwick Club) - April 30, 1916 (Boxmoor House, Hertfordshire)

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Inside back cover has newspaper story about Ted Conybeare as a
minor hero a year earlier at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France,
directing mortar fire, won the Military Cross in March 1915.
The newspaper name or date is not shown, the illustration by "F.E.Hiley".
The Lieutenant made Captain before his death.

I found a record for him: Edward Bruce Conybeare died 5 April 1916
age 23, born in India.
(Volume II, scan 004 describes "Platway" as
filled with Indian ornaments from Uncle Crawford's time there.)
He is buried at the Basra Memorial, Iraq, near where Britain again
lost 11 men, exactly 87 years after his death, first week of April, 2003.


The record for his older brother, lost January 1915
. Aunt Amy Maxwell Broadhurst lost both sons and her husband in 15 months, leaving 3 daughters.


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 124   Volume 5: January 1916 (Warwick Club) - April 30, 1916 (Boxmoor House, Hertfordshire)