Lieutenant John Hammond Edgar

Regiment: 9th Batt. Durham Light Infantry
Date published: 31/03/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/02/1916
Cemetery: Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (transport Farm), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: I. M. 27.
Information: Lieutenant John Hammond Edgar M.A. L.L.B., Barrister-at-Law, Newcastle-on-Tyne, was killed in action on February 25th last whilst serving with the 9th Batt. Durham Light Infantry. He was the only son of the late Mr. R. S. Edgar, Dromore, Co. Down, and Mrs. Edgar, 15 Cliftonville Avenue, Belfast. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and the Royal University of Ireland, where he had a brilliant career. He was called to the Bar in 1904 and subsequently practised in Newcastle.