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BILLINGHAM

Edgar, G.M., LACW., 1945

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In St. Cuthbert's Churchyard is the Commonwealth War Grave of:-

433640 Leading ACW
Greta May Edgar
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
25th February 1945

At The Going Down
Of The Sun
We Will Remember
She Died That We Might Live

Daughter of Robert Johnson Yarrow and Annie Yarrow, of Billingham; wife of J. Edgar.

Simon Glancey has supplied the following:

The Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that she died at 04.00 at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, due to appendicitis. She was married to John Thomas Metcalfe Edgar, a Lance Corporal in the Royal Army Service Corps., and their usual residence was 114 Weardale Crescent, Billingham.

Greta May Edgar is not remembered on a local War Memorial.


The CWGC entry for Leading Aircraftwoman Edgar

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk