247392 Edward "Twilight" Edwards British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers from:Rhosllanerugog My father, Edward Edwards, joined the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1935 I think the first in the family, all my dad's family worked in Hafod colliery. After training at Wrexham barracks he went to India and Gibraltar then back home in 1939 where he met my mum, they were in the South of England (Crowborough) in 1940, just before Dunkirk, my eldest sister was born in Wrexham, then he was stationed in Scotland were my eldest brother was born (in those days before the NHS you had to pay for doctors and no married quarters). He was then in training for the invasion of Madagascar, my mother came home back to Granddads.
In 1942 the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers sailed from the Clyde to South Africa ready for Battle to clear the Vichy French out and make the route to India and Burma safe for the next campaign.
He came out of the Army in 1944 after 9 years 6 months never to be the same again.
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