Furness Edmund Alfred Private 14554015
Personnel Entry
Name 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. He married Lilian Veevers (1926 - 2017) in April 1948 - registered in Northumberland Central.
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