Editing Alexander Edwards (section)

===Killed in action===
On 21 March 1918 the Germans began their ''[[Kaiserschlacht]]'' (Spring Offensive). On 24 March Edwards was wounded and posted missing in action, presumed killed, at [[Bapaume]] Wood, east of [[Arras, France|Arras]], France.<ref name=Bird>{{Cite book |first=Derek |last=Bird |title=The Spirit of the Troops is Excellent |page=178 |publisher=Birdbrain Books |location=Eastholm |year=2008|isbn=978-0-9560223-0-1}}</ref>
[[File:Passchendaele aerial view.jpg|thumb|right|185px|Passchendaele before and after the battle.]]

No body was ever identified, and Serjeant Edwards is commemorated at Bay 8 on the [[Arras Memorial]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1541158 |title=Serjeant Alexander Edwards |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref>

The Moray Firth Golf Links at Lossiemouth have a [[sundial]] memorial to Edwards and his cousin, Captain G.E. Edwards {{post-nominals|size=100|DSO}}, who also died while serving with the 6th Seaforth during the war. As boys, both had acted as [[Caddie]]s at the golf course.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sym|first=John M.|title=Seaforth Highlanders|page=337 |publisher=Gale & Polden|location=Aldershot |year=1962|oclc=1059816697}}</ref>