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 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.

[3] On the outbreak of the war in August 1914 he was working as a stationer's assistant, but promptly enlisted in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles,[4] who were based at the Duke of York's Barracks on the King's Road, Chelsea.

He and his family returned to Twickenham, London, in late 1943, where Edwards worked as a swimming instructor, an office manager, and at the Royal Military School of Music.

[9] Edwards' football was found after the battle, lodged in the German barbed wire, and was on display at the regimental museum in London up until the 1970s, when it was put into storage in the sergeant's mess and forgotten.