Surname(s) | Winbush |
First name(s) | Edward Thomas |
Family details | Son of Julia and the late Edward Thomas Winbush of Geneva House, 1 Shoot-up-Hill, Brondesbury |
College | King's College London and/or King's College London Hospital |
Dept / course | Faculty of Science, Botany |
Qualifications | B.Sc. (Hons) |
Military unit | Ammunition Column. 33rd Division, Royal Field Artillery |
War / conflict | World War One (1914-1918) |
Campaigns | France and Flanders December 1915 to September 1917 |
Date of death | 24 September 1917 |
Age at death | 36 |
Rank at death | 2nd Lieutenant |
Cause of death | Killed by concussion from a heavy shell on his way back from warning the men at the second gun of the approach of gas shells |
Burial place | Reninghelst New Military Cemetery |
Commemoration(s) | King's College Chapel |
Notes | When he joined up he was working for his D.Sc. and was President of the Birkbeck College Natural History Society |
Sources | King's College London Archives; Commonwealth War Graves Commission; University of London O.T.C. 1914-1918 |