William Edler

Corporal William George Edler was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1887, in Bethnal Green, the son of German-born parents, Julius, a stick bender by trade, and Helene Edler (née Haas). At the time of the 1911 Census, Edler was working as a walking stick finisher while living with his wife and two children at 3 Sewardstone Road, Bethnal Green.
Aged 30, Edler died on 21 March 1918, on the first day of Germany's Spring Offensive, while serving on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Pozieres Memorial. A younger brother, Henry Julius, a private with the Manchester Regiment, had died in 1915.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Edler, William George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Category:1887 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Pozieres Memorial
Category:Corporals