The second of the Southwell brothers to die in the war (see Wilfred Southwell, 1915), Edmund (as he was known to his family) had not joined the army until conscription came in, in January 1916.  He had a good job as the Head of Classical Studies at Hymer’s College in Hull having previously taught at a school in Ripon.  Like his brother, Wilfred, had been in the Bedford County XI cricket team, and also the Public Schools XI as well as being a semi-professional football player. 

          He was conscripted into the 4^th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regt., and had been in France for some time before he was killed at the First Battle of the Scarpe, and buried in Duisans British Cemetery.

          Edmund and Wilfred also had a younger brother, Humphrey, who was captured and made a prisoner of war in October 1918 whilst serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers but he returned home safely, so at least one of the three brothers survived.