Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Fus. Edward Graham

British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers

from:Chopwell, Co. Durham

(d.13th Aug 1943)

My late Father, Edward Graham, joined the Territorial Army, aged 23, in 1935 and served with the Durham Light Infantry and was called up on the outbreak of hostilities in 1939. In 1940, after the retreat from Dunkirk, he was transferred to the Royal Irish Fusiliers and sent to Ballykinlar, County Down for training.

In early 1943 the regiment embarked for North Africa and after action there took part in the Allied landings in Sicily. My Father was posted missing on 13th. August 1943 after heavy fighting near Matello, Sicily.

He is recorded on the War Memorial at Cassino, Italy ( Panel 11 )



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