CARDELL, EDMUND POWNE, M.C., Major, 14th Light Division, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Edmund Harvey Cardell, of Great Paxton, St. Neot’s, co. Huntingdon, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of F. P. Nickell; b. Launceston, co. Cornwall, 4 May, 1892; educ. East Anglian School, Bury St. Edmund’s, and Nottingham University; he took the degree of B.Sc. of the London University (Engineering), and was on the staff of the British Reinforced Concrete Company; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. in Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1915, and was killed in action near Passchendaele 21 March, 1918. His Colonel wrote: He was as brave as a lion, and his character was most exemplary. There was not an officer or man in the battery who did not love him.” He was three times mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 15 June, 1916, 4 Jan. and 14 Dec. 1917] by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distin-guished service in the field; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5