1 April 2010

2569458 Sjt Edward Arthur Pexton, Royal Corps of Signals

2569458 Serjeant Edward Arthur Pexton of the Royal Corps of Signals, died in Italy on the 1st April 1944. He was 29 years old, the son of Sidney Chatham Pexton and Nellie Pexton of Stratford in Essex. He is buried in the Cassino War Cemetery, 139 kilometres south-east of Rome.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1 comment:

Pippa Baddeley said...

Edward Arthur Pexton was my father's first cousin. He was one of five children (two sisters, a brother and his twin Dennis).

He will be not be forgotten.