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Arthur Noel Edwards

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Captain Arthur Noel Edwards was an English polo player, born on 10 December 1883, the second son of Arthur Edwards of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex, and a brother of the cricketer Guy Janion Edwards. He took part in the 1911 and 1913 International Polo Cup matches at the Meadowbrook Polo Club as an alternate for the English side. A captain in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, he died on 25 May 1915 as the result of a German poison gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension and later re-interred at High Beach, where the Church of the Holy Innocents holds a memorial to him.

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1883 1
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    was an English polo player
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    Arthur Noel Edwards participated in the 1911 and 1913 International Polo Cup at the Meadowbrook Polo Club as an alternate.
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