Private Edgar Mawson was the sixth son in the family that lived in Idris Road. He had been a surveyor's assistant and had been one of the first to enlist on 14 August 1914. He sailed with the Main Body, and served in Gallipoli with the Canterbury Infantry Regiment, where he saw much action. He eventually contracted diarrhoea and gastro-enteritis and on 11 September 1915 he was evacuated to Egypt to recover. While waiting to sail to Gallipoli, he was involved in minor disciplinary trouble in Zeitoun, being awarded three days' CB for being late to roll call. Recovering in Egypt from his Gallipoli experience, he contracted syphilis. In May 1916, he sailed with reinforcements from New Zealand and had his first taste of European trench warfare with the New Zealand Division in the trenches around Armentieres. He was killed in action on 17 September 1916, possibly in the dogfight for Drop Alley, and is commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial at Caterpillar Valley on the Somme.
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