Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Signed up 19/01/1900 with the Leicestershire Regiment, discharged 30/05/1901. Awarded Queen's South Africa medal with two clasps (Laing's Nek and Transvaal).
Emigrated to New Zealand in 1912.
Served in WWI with the New Zealand Canterbury Regiment, Infantry Battalion. Died on 30/05/1915 of Paraplegia in No. 5 Indian General Hospital, Ash Shatibi, Alexandria (gunshot wounds to the spine). Buried 30/05/1915 at Chatby Military Cemetery, Alexandria. Posthumously awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
(Information from I Sainthouse, 03/02/2023)

Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour of former pupils, this records that Edward attended the school between the years 1887 and 1891. Information taken from the New Zealand Archive documents record that he gave his next of kin as his daughter Miss Mary I. L. Evans, care of Vernon Rout, Nelson, New Zealand. He was married. His enlistment address was given as Brightwater, Nelson, New Zealand. He embarked from New Zealand with the 3rd Reinforcements of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion on the 14th February 1915 aboard HMNZT 17 “Maunganui” or HMNZT 18 “Tahiti” or HMNZT 19 “Aparima.”