Private Edward G Weston

Edward George Weston, the son of Richard and Edith Weston, of King’s Heath, Birmingham, enlisted into the South Staffordshires, transferred to The Royal Artillery and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Weston successfully completed parachute training at RAF Ringway on course number 87 from 13 to 25 October 1943. His course report stated ‘good type, intelligent and keen’. He was posted to 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.

He fought in the Normandy campaign and took part in the 6th Airborne Division response to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, during Winter 1944-5.

Pte Weston was killed in action on 3 January 1945, aged 23, and was buried in Bure, Tellin, (Belgium) temporary burial ground. He was later reinterred in Hotton War Cemetery on 22 May 1947.

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