Madeline ida bedford biography
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Many thanks to Clive Barrett, who broke off his own research into Yorkshire WW1 poet and artist Constance Ada Renshaw to help me with this.
Madeline Ida was born in Woolwich in 1885.
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Her parents were Edward, a Civil Engineer from Waterford in Ireland (b. 1849) and Sarah Dinah (born (1858). Her siblings were Ellen (b. 1878), Alice M. (born 1883) and Edward Terence (born 1896).
Madeline ida bedford biography
Edward Bedford must have worked in India for Ellen was born there.
By 1914, the family had moved to Belvedere in Kent.
During the First World War, Madeline's brother Edward Terence Bertyn Bedford was a Captain in the 34th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed on 28th May 1917 during the Battle of Arras and is buried in the Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension in Pas de Calais, France.