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The Bristol Grammar School website provides his service and death details and this biographical information: 'Son of Albert Edward Edgar, clerk, of 10 Trelawney Road, Cotham.
Edgar was born on 23/03/1897, and attended the School from 1907-1913. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army, with the Machine Gun Corps, Infantry, 23rd Bn.. Edgar sadly lost his life on 31/07/1917, as a result of the War.
Edgar is buried in Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium, Enclosure No. 4 IV. G. 17.
The Western Daily Press (11th August 1917), under the heading 'Bristol officer Shot by a Sniper' wrote "The many friends of Second Lieutenant Bernard Roy Edgar, Machine-Gun Corps, will learn with sorrow that he was killed in action on July31 last. Although he had been nut a comparatively short time in France, a recent letter home mentioned narrow escapes, on one occasion a shell falling in the midst of his men, with disastrous consequences to many. Lieut. Edgar was educated at the Bristol Grammar School. He left the staff of the National Provincial Bank, Bristol, and joined the Artists’ Rifles as a volunteer, later obtaining his commission in the M.G.X. He is the only son of Mr and Mrs Edgar, of 10 Trelawney Road, Cotham, who have received an appreciative letter from a brother officer testifying to Lieut. Edgar’s courage and popularity with his men. He was shot in the head by a sniper whilst engaged upon observation work, death being instantaneous. The young officer was only 20 years of age."'