United Kingdom Private 27833 Hampshire Regiment 13/03/1918 V. J. 25.

From story by DarrellandJanet, 2 Nov 2008, on trees.ancestry.com:
Edward had joined a Scottish Regiment as a boy. He chose a Scottish Regiment as he had been born there, the only one of his parents children to share his parents' origins. When his Father died in 1906, Edward bought himself out to return home to support his widowed mother in the care of his younger siblings, especially the new twins. He married Alice Mayhew and had a daughter, Alice (Lally), born 1914. On the outbreak of war in August 1914 Edward rejoined the army and served all through but was killed in 1918. A son to be proud of, and from all family stories, the best male member of the family, reliable, respectable and responsible.

From Dave Wiles:
During WW1 Edward served firstly in the Devonshire Regiment, and then he appears to have transferred to the Hampshire Regiment, where he stayed until his untimely death on what appears to have been the quietest day the Hampshires had before the last big push made by the German army. He is mentioned in the records of the Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester, but not for any specific action.