Edward Jesse Weeks

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Edward Jesse Weeks was born, and registered as such, in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, on 9 Jun 1894 and baptised there as 'Edwin' on 29 Jul 1894 the son of Edwin Jasper Weeks and Sarah Ann Weeks (nee Avery).  He lived his early life at Dean, Sixpenny Handley and later, by 1911, in Farnham, Dorset.  He had enlisted on 29 Oct 1914 and joined the Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner (Service No. 48536).  It is thought he served in France and Flanders where he had suffered gunshot wounds to the left leg and was discharged as being physically unfit to continue in service on 18 Jul 1917.  He was awarded the Silver War Badge No. 213817 as well as the Victory and British War Medals (no mention of the 1914/15 Star has been found).  He was also granted a small pension.  His marriage Florence Kate Whitlock was registered in Tisbury, Wiltshire, during March 1921 shortly after which time the 1921 Census was taken and Edward was reported as an Inmate in Dorchester Prison, Dorchester, Dorset, as a result of a case of theft. (See Western Gazette of Friday, 4th March, 1921.)  By the time of the 1939 Register he was living at 2 Tinkley Cottages, Rushmore, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, working as a Road Worker for Wiltshire County Council.  He died in The Infirmary, Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 14 Aug 1959.  His brothers, James Weeks and Sidney Weeks, both served but regrettably died in the conflict.