Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Edward Arthur Martyn. Born on the 26th December 1888 in Isleworth, Middlesex, the son of Arthur Edward and Annie E. Martyn, née Voller. His father was a Brewer’s Labourer. He was baptised on the 17th February 1889 at St John the Baptist Church, Isleworth and the family were living at Linkfield Lane, Isleworth. The 1891 census shows him living with his parents and his 6 months old sister Ellen A Martyn at 9 Brewery Cottages, St John’s Road, Isleworth. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on the 16th January 1905, service number 8231. He married Mildred Ellen Smith on the 17th April 1910 at St John’s Church, Ealing and their daughter Nellie Amelia Martyn was born on the 30th September 1910. He entered France with his regiment on the 12th August 1914 and was discharged, a Private, as medically unfit with an injured right arm on the 9th April 1915 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He was also awarded the 1914 Star with the Clasp and Rose, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. In June 1928 he was appointed as a Porter in the Post Office London South West District. On the 5th January 1933 he was appointed as Porter in the Post Office Savings Bank Department and finally on the 23rd February 1938 as a Mail Porter in the London Postal Service. During the Second World War he was a local Warden and was found dead on the 12th October 1940 at his home at 39 Moreton Place, Pimilico, London, SW1 following an air-raid during the previous night. Probate was granted to his widow. Effects totalled £214-15s-0d.
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