In 1911 he was 13 years old & living with his parents Albert & Mary Hannah Brooks at 97 Ash Road.
On the outbreak of war he enlisted into the Bedfordshire Regiment alongside his father, but later transferred to the 1/2nd Battalion London Regiment Royal Fusiliers.
Edwin Benjamin Eales was born in 1892 in Hammersmith, London.
In the 1911 census it tells us that he is living at 19 South Road, Luton with his widowed mother Kate 42, & sister Edith Florence 14, both are working as straw hat machinist. His elder brother Horace William 22, is a boiler maker in the iron foundry, whilst 6 year old Cyril Thomas is at school.
On the 9th January 1916 the Luton News reported the death of Alfred Johnstone. At the outbreak of war, Alfred Johnstone was living with his parents and brother Leonard, at 4 Warwick Road, Luton. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment and was sent to France, where he died on the 9th September 1916.
From the Luton News dated 4th January 1917. LUTONIAN KILLED. Mrs A Brown of 2a Essex Street, Luton has received official information that her son, Pte Edward Brown, 19, who enlisted April 1st last year in the Northants Regiment, was killed in action on December 10th.
Prior to joining up he worked in the grocery department of the Bury Park branch of the Luton Co-operative Society and he has only been at the Front three months. Mrs Brown has also received a letter from Sec.Liet. A E Ward of the same regiment, who states
