{"id":1211,"date":"2014-11-12T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plattwarmemorial.org\/?page_id=1211"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:39:22","slug":"edith-caroline-arragon-1879-1940","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/world-war-two\/edith-caroline-arragon-1879-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Edith Caroline Arragon (1880 &#8211; 1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h3 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.5;\">Edith Caroline Arragon (1880 &#8211; 1940)<\/h3><\/div><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-dropshadow imageframe-1 hover-type-zoomin\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan.jpg\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[f479719cee715707f55]\" data-title=\"Edith Caroline Arrogan (1879 &#8211; 1940)\" title=\"Edith Caroline Arrogan (1879 &#8211; 1940)\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan-300x201.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-7777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan-200x134.jpg 200w, http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan-400x268.jpg 400w, http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan-600x401.jpg 600w, http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan-800x535.jpg 800w, http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edith_arrogan.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x16tdsg8\" dir=\"ltr\">Edith (Edie) Caroline Arragon was born in Marylebone, London, on 24 January 1880. The youngest daughter of John Charles Arragon, a local house painter, and Jane (n\u00e9e Saunders). Edie was baptised at St John&#8217;s Wood, Our Lady, on 18 September 1881; however, shortly afterwards, her mother died. John remarried in 1883, and Edie and older sister Winifred were sent away to the Priory Boarding School at St. Marychurch in Torquay, Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x16tdsg8\" dir=\"ltr\">John died in 1890, and the girls eventually returned to London, where Edie entered service and worked for households in and around Kensington and Chelsea. During the 1930s, she was the housekeeper at 14 Oakley Street for John Craig, a silk merchant, and his wife, Hana, a court dressmaker. In 1940, Edie went to stay with Ernest and Alice Wilkins (an old friend) at Meadow Cottage in Wrotham Heath to escape the Blitz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x16tdsg8\" dir=\"ltr\">On the night of the bombing of 15 October 1940, Edie was in the Royal Oak when the pub suffered a direct hit.\u00a0Edward \u2018Ted\u2019 Lowes (of Whatcote Cottages) and Joan Wilkins were walking towards the \u2018Oak\u2019\u00a0where they were due to meet friends. They saw the explosion, and Ted\u00a0subsequently found Edie under rubble and carried her outside. However, she was already dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x16tdsg8\" dir=\"ltr\">Edie was buried in the Platt churchyard on 21 October.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions\/10445"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}