A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air Force Between the Wars (1919-1939), formed by Group Captain J E Barker
Edwards in the passenger seat
As the war reached Burma, Edwards was given an Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Indian Engineers, 14 March 1942. He advanced to Temporary Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of HQ Army in India, Quartermaster General’s Branch. Edwards served with the latter as an Assistant Director (Transportation), and finished the war with the rank of Temporary Colonel. He returned to his pre-war employment, and was appointed Deputy Chief Engineer, Burma Railways, Rangoon. Edwards became a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in February 1947.
Edwards retired to “Glenways”, St. Brelade, Jersey, and died at Beauport Nursing Home, St. Brelade in January 1980.
Sold with the following documents and ephemera: letter from the Commonwealth Relations Office to recipient confirming his entitlement to Second War campaign medals, dated 13 October 1950; hand-written list of recipient’s service and awards, dated 23 February 1974; photograph of recipient in the cockpit of his aircraft ‘Baby D’, and another of the recipient in the passenger seat of an armoured car; newspaper cuttings featuring recipient, and annotated by him; postcard sent by recipient from Parentis-En-Born, France, to his wife; and a file of copied research.
