You post is confusing.
You say he possibly died in 1944/5 aged 70 yet you also say that you have him in 1916 aged 16 and again in 1937 aged 83.
Could this be your ET?
In the 1939 Register there is an Edward b1874 m to Florence and they lived in Woolverhampton, there is also a death registered in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire Q4 1955 9b/846.