Great War Portraits

Harold John Martin Edgar - 'Drake Battalion' Royal Naval Division. Second son of John Edgar of Birkenhead, was Killed in Action near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, on May 10, 1915.
 
He entered the School in 1894 and left 1897. He was in the Football XV, and afterwards played for some years for the Birkenhaed Park and Cheshire XV's; he also rowed in the Mersey Rowing Club crew at Henley.
 
At the outbreak of war he was in New York acting as secretary of the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co. He immediately came to England, and obtained a commission in the Royal Naval Division, with which he crossed on the Antwerp expedition, but was recalled after arriving in Dunkirk. After a certain amount of further training he embarked with the R.N.D. for Egypt, and eventually landed near Cape Helles at the end of April 1915. He was killed in the trenches by a sniper whilst in command of his company.
 
From the 'Memorials of Old Birkonians 1914-1918' 1920