John Ewart Edson
Attended Brunts School and University of Sheffield. He graduated with honours and won the John Hall Gold Medal. He became a registered doctor on 15th October 1931. He worked in Croyden and has a ship's doctor.
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Son of Edward and Margaret Elizabeth Edson of Church Drive, Shirebrook. His parents were the Registrar and Deputy Registrar of Birth, Marriage and Deaths
Siblings:Arthur Bertram, 1902 and Frank Burley, 1904.
Married Christine Agnes Watson in the Spring of 1941. Christine was employed as a ward sister at The Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath. Christine continued to work has a ward sister after John's death and she died in 1962.
He volunteered in 1940 and was sent by the War Office to London for emergency duties during the air raids in 1940 -41.
He was made a captain in May 1941 and a major in January 1942. He was deployed to the 17th British General Hospital Dehra Dun, India in February 1942 and died there in June 1942.
Dehra Dun was in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Buried at Delhi War Cemetery, plot 2. C. 8.
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