Edward John Griffiths (left)

County Herald November 30, 1917.

Official news has reached Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths, the Bridge Inn, Padeswood, that their son, Sergeant Ed.John Griffiths, has been killed in action on the Western Front. He had been three months on active service. He enlisted in May, 1915, and for over two years acted as instructor at a Lancashire Camp. He was 26 years of age, and before joining the Colours he was a police constable in the West Riding Constabulary, and was stationed at Pudsey, near Leeds.