Sergeant Gardiner, 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, suddenly died while drilling D Company recruits on the Westwood, Beverley. He lived at Anne's Terrace, Clifton Street, Hull, but was billeted at the Assembly Rooms, Beverley. The cause of death was given as heart failure. Press reports gave his age as 62, but the General Register Office has it as having been 58.
As a Guardsman he had served in the Egyptian Campaign and the South African War.
As a Guardsman he had served in the Egyptian Campaign and the South African War.
Sergeant Gardiner, 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, suddenly died while drilling D Company recruits on the Westwood, Beverley. He lived at Anne's Terrace, Clifton Street, Hull, but was billeted at the Assembly Rooms, Beverley. The cause of death was given as heart failure. Press reports gave his age as 62, but the General Register Office has it as having been 58.
As a Guardsman he had served in the Egyptian Campaign and the South African War.
As a Guardsman he had served in the Egyptian Campaign and the South African War.
Inscription
Headstone:
3/7235 Serjeant
E.J. Gardiner
East Yorkshire Regiment
21st. September 1914 Age 58
South:
In loving memory of Edgar John Gardiner
died 21st. Sept. 1914, aged 58 years
North:
Also Rebecca Emily Gardiner,
died 21st. Nov. 1949, aged 84 years.
East:
Reunited.
Gravesite Details
1948630
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