[Transcribed as Edwin] Lance Corporal 10632, 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Killed in action 7 October 1916. Aged 23. Born 26 December 1892 in Bentham, Yorkshire, resident Pontefract, enlisted Knottingley. Baptised 29 January 1893 in bentham, Yorkshire, son of Jane Briscoe. Son of Edward Walton Briscoe and Jane Briscoe, of 6, Graham Street, Lancaster. He won a County Council scholarship and took a school teacher’s post at Ackworth School, under Mr. J. Swinbank. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born Bentham, Yorkshire, grandson of Joseph and Mary Shepherd, son of Janes Briscoe (a widow), resident Main Street, Bentham, Settle, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (West Riding). In the 1911 census he was aged 18, born Bentham, Yorkshire, a Student teacher, son of Jane Briscoe (a widow), resident Station Road, Bentham, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (West Riding). No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, Frannce. Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.

Article from ‘Craven Herald’ - 27 October 1916:

Another Bentham boy missing and reported killed is Corporal Edward Walton Briscoe, the grandson of ‘Old Taylor Shepherd’ of the Collingwood Houses, who is in his 91st year. Corp. Briscoe was the son of the late Mr. Edward W. Briscoe. He won a County Council scholarship and took a school teacher’s post at Ackworth School, under Mr. J. Swinbank, and prior to enlisting in the Duke of Wellington’s appeared to have a promising career before him. Much sympathy is felt with his widowed mother.

Extract from Giggleswick School Register, Pub 1922:

Briscoe, Edward Walton (Town). 26th December, 1892. Son of Mrs Briscoe, Station Road, Bentham. Left July, 191o. Studied at St Luke's University College, Exeter. During the Great War 1914-18 joined the 8th Batt. Royal Fusiliers; reported wounded and missing in France, 7th October, 1916. No information since.

[Details kindly supplied by John Richardson]