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Wartime Photographs of Edward Noel Edge

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:59 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

My late father served with the RAOC between 1942 to 1947. He like many men from the North West went to North Africa and Italy. He also did not really talk about it but memories were stirred whenever we drove through Glossop when he pointed out a cafe he stopped at during training. When two players were transferred to Bari in the 80's my dad did recognise the old stadium he must have watched a football match in wartime. That is all I know about my dad's time in the army during World War 2.

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Item list and details

Photographs of the unit in Italy, Naples I think, a football match in the Vittorio stadium Bari, a soldiers service and pay book and a soldiers release book both around 80 years old.

Person the story/items relate to

Edward Noel Edge 1923-1987 Lt/cprl RAOC

Person who shared the story/items

Janet Elizabeth Edge

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

He was my father

Type of submission

Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.

Record ID

115889