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Sep 29, 1893 London Died on 01 Jan 1964 (aged 70)
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About Frank Edwards British Army Soldier
- Frank Edwards (29 September 1893–January 1964), also known as The Footballer of Loos, was a British Army soldier in the First World War who served as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, during the Battle of Loos.
- He is distinguished for leading the London Irish across no man's land to storm enemy trenches kicking a football ahead of the troops.
- The successful capture of enemy positions that followed earned the London Irish Rifles their second battle honour, Loos, 1915.
- The football is still preserved in the regimental museum of the London Irish and to this day the memory of Edwards is commemorated on Loos Sunday.
