Source: File:
Edwin and Annie Brazil - researched by Thomas Uhlarik, John Hampden Grammar School.
Wikipedia. Available at:
<http://www.galaxypix.com/Sally/Losttheplot/Tellthemofus/BrazilE.html>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
Source: File: Attestation
papers of Edwin Brazil. Available at: <http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=61953>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
Source: File: Wycombe
and the Somme part 4 Gilbert Bates and Edwin Brazil researched and
performed by pupils from John Hampden Grammar School and Wycombe Abbey School.
See original footage: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19ChiaNn78&feature=youtu.be&t=6s>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
i
Tucked away in an
almost insignificant report
Page 14, column 3
of The Daily Telegraph,
Noted the loss of
a Canadian soldier; although
Facts around him were left as a mystery.
An Englishman
Edwin Brazil born Colchester
Essex, 26 June
1875, whose circumstances
Went unexplained;
married, Edwin was living
In Canada by the
second year of war.
Following his reasons
Edwin joined the services
As a Canadian, with
179th Battalion Cameron
Highlanders of
Canada - declaring his kin within
Attestation papers
dated 13th November.
Next of kin being
his wife Annie Huntley Brazil
From High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire
In England,
though Edwin was living Winnipeg,
Manitoba in Canada;
his trade a wood carver.
Then aged 39 and
five months Edwin Brazil
Had a
medical examination 12 November 1915.
Height 5 foot 9, described
as having thinning
Black hair, fresh
complexion with brown eyes.
His chest at full
expansion was 38', and noting
He had operation
wound on left foreleg -
The medical Captain
considered him fit; Brazil's
Attestation
signed by a lieutenant Colonel.
Having been
recruited in Winnipeg, Canada
Edwin Became Private
Brazil 859265 and
Sailed to England,
4 October 1916, on H.M.T.
Saxonia - arriving
Liverpool 13 October.
Private Brazil
was soon promoted to the post
Of Acting Corporal
- by date 17 October to be
Stationed at the Sandling Camp in Folkestone.
Gaining leave
Edwin visited his old home.
ii
With 6 days leave
to spend, Edwin travelled
Returning to his
wife living at 'Brouhaul,'
Amersham Hill,
High Wycombe - situated on
A leafy road of
various substantial houses.
When those few
days came to an end acting
Corporal Edwin Brazil
informed his wife
That it was time for
his returning to Sandling
Camp - that night
Edwin left their home.
Edwin though had
no intentions in travelling
To camp, instead he travelled into London,
For whatever
reason - then 25 November 1916
Saturday, Edwin
Brazil was out walking.
The hour was dark
as Edwin Brazil crossed
Grosvenor Place, when all of a sudden
He was hit by a
motor bus - the driver and
Others close by went to assist him.
Before he could
be taken to St Georges
Hospital, Acting Corporal
Brazil died
Of his injuries,
lying on the London street -
An inquest was
held 30 November 1916.
In conclusion the
driver was exonerated from
Any blame, as the
verdict of the inquest
Declared this as
accidental death - Edwin
Brazil was laid
to rest High Wycombe.
Records showed
that his last known address
To be Mrs
Reeves, 242 Ellen St, Winnipeg,
Canada, though Edwin would declare his will
And estate to 'my wife, Anna Huntley Brazil.'
The mystery of Corporal Brazil perhaps no
Mystery - having married young to Annie
Stevens to become estranged by his behaviour
His wife had hoped that he might change.
Emigrating to Canada, still working as a wood
Carver, Edwin sought a new life - only to return
To England, to see Annie after long years - yet
A hope of love again lost in pointless death.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Killed By Motor. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 1 December 1916. P.14.
Col.3. Available at:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213905/Daily-Telegraph-December-1-1916.html>
[Accessed: 9 December 2016].
Source: File: Edwin Brazil. Available at: <http://buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk/php_scripts/bksidget.php?id=516>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
Source: File:
Canadian Virtual War Memorial: In Memory of Corporal Edwin
Brazil. Available at:
<http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/343890>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
Source: File:
Edwin Brazil, researched by Thomas Uhlarik, John Hampden Grammar School.
Available at:
<http://www.galaxypix.com/Sally/Losttheplot/Tellthemofus/BrazilE.html>
[Accessed 9 December 2016]
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 9 December 2016).
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#worldwaroneremembered #WW1Canada
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