Edith was born at 40, King street, Hebden Bridge on 6th May 1920 and died in Halifax in 2003. Edith and Maurice (her brother?) both joined the army soon after the start of WW2. She was aunt to Christine Sharp, nee Boulton and great aunt to Ailsa…
Post recruitment. During the war Mary worked as a teleprinter operator for the ATS, moving to France with the Americans SHAEF in 1944. She was amongst the first lot of women to go to Paris after the Germans left.