Corporal Archibald Christie Edwards
160 Depot Brigade,
28th Coy, 7th Battalion
Born on 3rd Jan 1896 at Vale, Guernsey as the son of
George Edwards and Rachel Mauger of Castel Farm, Castel.
He emigrated to the United States in April 1914 and
worked as a Machinist for the American Gear Co and was
drafted on 5th June 1917.
He married Wilma Carter on 30th May 1923 at Grass Lake,
Jackson, Michigan. He died on 25th June 1955 at Saginaw,
Michigan.
The article in in the Guernsey Weekly Press said that
his commanding officer reported that he had the potential
to be a Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps but
this does not appear to have happened before he was
demobbed.
He was also drafted in WWII but may not have served.