Leone Fabre shares the story of family member Edward Harold Artso.

Edward Harold Artso was born in Warrnambool in 1892. He was the 9th child to Martha Hammond and William Artsow.

He embarked Melbourne on board the troop carrier HMAT A14 EURIPIDES headed towards the Middle East, landing at Alexandria.  By July he had been dispatched to the “Bombing School” in Lyndhurst in England, where he stayed until the September of 1916.

Edward Harold Artso died at Vignacourt in France from a gun shot wound to his back and right arm that he had received at Sailly-le-Sec on 3 May 1918.

Read more about Edward Harold ARTSO on Leone’s blog.