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|Surname and forenames=Furness Edmund Alfred
|Army number=14554015
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Born 15/1/1925 -  birth registered January 1925 in Gateshead.  Mother's maiden surname Moss.
|Age=77 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Conscripted into the General Staff Corps – date not yet confirmed but probably 1943.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry – date not yet available – and posted to the 10th Battalion.  Served Normandy.  Wounded.  Transferred to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2/5/1947.  Granted A Release 24/6/1947.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=On being posted to the 10th Battalion.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes – in Normandy – date not recorded.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death January 2002 - registered in Gateshead.
|Home address=Father - Alfred Alexander Furness (1881 - 1961) Joiner and Carpenter.  Mother Ellen Moss (1885 - 1935).  The 1939 Register shows Edmund as a Joiner's Apprentice (possibly to his father) at the age of 14, and living with his father, stepmother and siblings at 20 Fife Street, Gateshead.
}}