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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Edward Arthur Martyn.    Born on the 26^th December 1888 in Isleworth, Middlesex, the son of Arthur Edward and Annie E. Martyn, née Voller. His father was a Brewer’s Labourer. He was baptised on the 17^th February 1889 at St John the Baptist Church, Isleworth and the family were living at Linkfield Lane, Isleworth. The 1891 census shows him living with his parents and his 6 months old sister Ellen A Martyn at 9 Brewery Cottages, St John’s Road, Isleworth. He enlisted in the 1^st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on the 16^th January 1905, service number 8231. He married Mildred Ellen Smith on the 17^th April 1910 at St John’s Church, Ealing and their daughter Nellie Amelia Martyn was born on the 30^th September 1910. He entered France with his regiment on the 12^th August 1914 and was discharged, a Private, as medically unfit with an injured right arm on the 9^th April 1915 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He was also awarded the 1914 Star with the Clasp and Rose, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. In June 1928 he was appointed as a Porter in the Post Office London South West District. On the 5^th January 1933 he was appointed as Porter in the Post Office Savings Bank Department and finally on the 23^rd February 1938 as a Mail Porter in the London Postal Service. During the Second World War he was a local Warden and was found dead on the 12^th October 1940 at his home at 39 Moreton Place, Pimilico, London, SW1 following an air-raid during the previous night. Probate was granted to his widow. Effects totalled £214-15s-0d.