Army
Dyer, Edward Arnold
Edward Arnold Dyer
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: 9th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Parents: Mr & Mrs Edward Dyer
Address: St Helen’s Road, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in action at the Dardanelles on 28th June 1915. According to CWGC, Edward is remembered at Twelve Trees Copse Cemetery, grave reference VII.C.15.
Published: July 1915 in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer
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This man was born in 1873 at Alton, Hampshire, the eldest son. His father Edmund was a farmer of 66 acres with 12 men in the 1881 census for the town. He was educated at Brighton College.
In the 1891 census he was a boarder in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, as a solicitor’s articled clerk. The London Gazette, 18 December 1896, records the dissolution of a partnership with William George Davies at 3 Rood Lane, EC and 75 Rochester Row, London, as Philpin Davies and Dyer.
On the 26 April 1905, at St Mary’s, Bryanston Square, London, he married Barbara Emily Georgina Simpson, he being a solicitor, his father a hop grower. His bride was born in about 1873 at Boulogne, France, daughter of the Rev. Henry Trail Simpson.
The couple, with a toddler son, travelled to St Johns, New Brunswick in 1908, intending to live at Toronto. The family were in Calgary, Alberta in the Canadian 1911 census, with wife and three children.
He joined the Canadian Army on the 15 September 1914. He was of Calgary, a barrister. This was to the Remount Department, 1st Canadian Contingent. He later secured a transfer to the Shropshire Light Infantry. He was “ordered to the Dardanelles” on May 19 and was attached to the Border Regiment.
This officer has a detailed entry and photo on page 109 of De Ruvigny’s publication “Roll of Honour” on Find My Past, including service in the Boer War. There are also obituaries in the West Sussex Gazette, 22 July 1915, and the West Sussex County Times, 31 July 1915.
His widow remarried. The Hastings Observer, 1 July 1933, records the marriage, 2 June 1933, Victoria, British Columbia, of “Arnold Erskine Vaughan (nee Dyer), Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, eldest son of the late Lieutenant Edward Arnold Dyer, Shropshire Light Infantry, stepson of Captain H.P.B. Vaughan, of 87, Pevensey-Road West, St Leonards on Sea” to Edith Seedhouse. The widow’s marriage appears to have occurred in 1917 in Washington state, her husband being Henry Vaughan.