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Capt. · Chaplain to the Royal Fusiliers

Ellis Foster Edge-Partington

† 17/08/1957

Personal data

NameEdge-Partington
InitialsE.F.
Christian nameEllis Foster
Date and place of birthRickmansworth; 1885
FamilySon of James Edge-Partington (a well-known anthropologist) and Ada Caroline Cunliffe. Married to Esther Muriel Seymour (1917)

Extra information

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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (theology)
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Member of the 1908 British Olympic hockey team. Gold medal.
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Fellow curate of Tubby at St. Mary's, Portsea (1909-1919). Canon of Southwark Cathedral. Chaplain to the King (1941).
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Died at East Grinstead

Military data

RankCapt.
Regiment / UnitChaplain to the Royal Fusiliers
Date of death

Other information

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Spent the night at Talbot House on 11.10.1917.
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On 18.04.1918 Tubby and Edge-Partington "went up the hills and had a wonderful view of the battle, burning towns and villages etc. It was a sight never to be forgotten."
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M.C. and Bar

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Sources

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Louagie, J., A Touch of Paradise in Hell: index