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Edward Hart died in Iraq aged 26 years. On the 1891 census he living next to the school in Broadstone with his father, Richard, a mariner, his mother Ellen, four sisters, Mary [a pupil teacher], Emma, Annie and Flora and two brothers William and Albert [who was killed in action in France, February 1916]. In 1901 he is living in what is now Dunyeats Road. His mother is the head of the household. Emma is now a dressmaker, Annie a school mistress, William a pupil teacher, and Albert is aged 13, and another brother Henry, aged 7. The Broadstone Church Magazine, August 1916 reported; We desire to express the sympathy of the whole parish to Mrs Hart and her family in the death of her son Frank, of 2/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment, who died in hospital at Basra. (Taken from Broadstone"s War Memorials, by Jill Floyd)