EDWARD KENT BALLS

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EDWARD KENT BALLS

Edward was born in 1893 and died – in Yorkshire – aged 91 in 1984.  In the war years and previously his family home was at 7 Ashford Avenue, Hornsey.  On the 1911 Census the Head was Harry, Edward’s eldest brother born in 1884.  Harry lived at the Ashford Avenue address with his wife Alice and his two younger brothers (including Edward) and sister.  There are no parents  – we assume they may have been deceased.

In 1911 Edward is recorded as being a Draper’s Apprentice.   He is reccorded on the Pearce Register as a conscientious objector, but we have no records of his ever being before any of the military tribunals in 1916.   When conscription came in in 1916 had already been working with the Friends’ War Victims Relief Service  since August 1915 and remained with them until 1923, being sent to France, Corsica and Russia.

Pearce/IWM