[janwhin]

Now you've blown my FH up! Edward is clearly not my William who died in 1964. So that theory will be put on the scrap heap.
I've had a look at the 1921 census under the half price offer at FMP. My William with his wife Janey Elizabeth and his mother are in that well known 22 Church Street. So he is on the AVL and the 1926 electoral roll.
It could be that those medals belonged to my William, more digging required.
Even more confusing is that he is calling himself Thomas William on the census, Thomas being his dead older brother and his age is out. Definitely him though because he married Janey ELizabeth and his mother is definitely my great grandmother.