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Edward Shedden
Bridge of Weir/Paisley
Born on 6 April 1890 in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Edward Shedden was listed with his father, by then a widower, and four siblings at Main Street, Bridge of Weir, in the 1911 census and described as a golf club maker.

This also encompassed his role as Assistant Professional at Old Ranfurly in the village from where he entered the Scottish PGA qualifier for the News of the World at Musselburgh in 1908. By June of 1912 he was full professional the Ralston club in Paisley and playing from there in the Scottish Professional Championship of that year over Dunbar. He won the Glasgow Professionals tournament at Cochrane Castle in 1913 and played in qualifying at Troon for the Open Championship at Prestwick the following year. It was his last tournament.

In November of that year he enlisted in the 10th Battalion, HLI, and was fighting in France before the end of the month. At some point he was transferred to the 1st Battalion, Cameronians, and was wounded with a shot in the right arm during the Somme offensive in 1916. He returned to active service and was listed as ‘missing, presumed dead’ on 8 May 1918. He is remembered, with 35,000 others without a known grave on the Tyne Cot memorial in Flanders and also on the Bridge of Weir war memorial

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