Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....EDGE, WILLIAM J. July 15, 1944 WWII - Enlistment 121ST INFANTRY U.S. ARMY ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 2, 2011, 2:36 pm KILLED INACTION MRS W.O. EDGE , OF CORDELE,HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT THAT HER SON, STAFF SARGEANT WILLIAM J. EDGE SERVING WITH THE 121ST INFANTRY, US ARMY ,WAS KILED IN ACTION IN FRANCE ON JULY 15TH. SARGEANT EDGE LEFT CORDELE WITH CO. L,121ST INFANTRY , NATIONAL GUARDS, IN 1940 AND WAS FIRST STATIONED AT FT. JACKSON,S.C., AND LATER AT FT. LEONARDWOOD, MO. BEFORE GOING OVERSEAS IN DECEMBER 1943,HIS OUTFIT WENT ON DESERY MANEUVERS IN CALIFORNIA AND LATER IN TENNESSEE. SARGEANT EDGE IS THE SON OF MRS. W.O. EDGE AND THE LATE MR. RDGE, OF THIS CITY. HE WAS TWENTY -THREE YEARS OF AGE. BESIDES HIS MOTHER , HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE ,THE FORMER ODESSA OWENS, TWO CHILDREN OWENS BYRON AND RITA MAXIE; TWO BROTHERS , PVT, G.T.EDGE .FT. CUSTER,MICH.;AND PVT. ROY J. EDGE OF CAMP SHANKS N.Y., TWO SISTERS ,MISSES MARY AND NANCY EDGE, BOTH OF ORLANDO,FLA, Additional Comments: A GOLDEN BOY WHO GAVE HIS LIFE IN WW 11 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/enlistment/edge486gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb