Frank Edwards (British Army soldier)

Frank Edwards (1893–1964), also known as The Footballer of Loos, was a rifleman with London Irish Rifles during the Battle of Loos. He is distinguished for leading the London Irish across No-Man's Land to storm enemy trenches kicking a football ahead of the troops. The successful capture of enemy positions that followed earned the London Irish Rifles their second battle honour, Loos, 1915. The football is still preserved in the regimental museum of the London Irish and to this day the memory of Edwards is commemorated on Loos Sunday.

External links and sources

• "Rifleman Frank Edwards Footballer of Loos 1893–1964". People: Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen. Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 20 April 2016. 
• Harris, Ed. The Footballer of Loos: A Story of the London Irish Rifles in the First World War. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5166-4