Edwin Sagar
Pte 11968 Edwin Sagar
Regiment: 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
Age: 22
Date of death: 3rd September 1916
Next of Kin: Mrs Arthur Heyworth (sister)
Burial recorded on Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Reported missing on 9th September 1916, but confirmation was not received until April 1917 when a comrade wrote to his sister to say he had been killed.
Son of Thomas and Mary Sagar, Hargreaves Fold Farm, his parents were deceased at this time and he lived with his married sister. Edwin was one of the first batch of men to enlist in the East Lancashire Regiment from the Lumb Valley.
Source: Rossendale Free Press 14.04.1917 p.5 col.2