Arthur Noel Edwards

Captain Arthur Noel Edwards (10 December 1883 – 25 May 1915) was an English polo player who participated in the 1911 and 1913 International Polo Cup as an alternate.

[1] He was born on 10 December 1883, the second son of Arthur Edwards of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex,[2] by his wife Hilda Tennant, a daughter of Robert Tennant (1828–1900) of Chapel House in the parish of Conistone, Yorkshire, Member of Parliament for Leeds.

His brother was the cricketer Guy Janion Edwards (1881–1962).

[1][3] He was a Captain in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and died in World War I on 25 May 1915 as the result of a poison gas attack by the Germans during the Second Battle of Ypres.

[4] He was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.