Kenneth F E Edwick

Warrant Officer Class 2 Kenneth Edwick served with Airborne Forces as part of The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA).

Kenneth Frank Ewart Edwick, born in August 1926, joined the Army late in the Second World War, with the General Service Corps. He transferred to The Parachute Regiment as the War in Europe was coming to an end and completed Parachute Course B163 at RAF Ringway in late May 1945, soon after VE Day. After qualifying he was posted to a reserve battalion before being posted to a service battalion.

Kenneth served in Palestine in the early post-war period, and later, the Canal Zone Egypt in the early 1950s with 2 PARA.

Kenneth Edwick died in June 2009.

Created with imagery and information kindly supplied by Paul Edwick

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General Service Corps (Private)
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The Parachute Regiment Reserve Battalion (Beverley and Piddlehinton) (Private)
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The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) 2 Para (Warrant Officer Class 2)

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Canal Zone Egypt

This had followed tension in Persia after British alarm at the nationalisation of its oil industry and fears for the safety of British nationals. The Brigade deployed to Cyprus in June aboard the Aircraft Carriers HMS Triumph and Warrior, the situation proving to be a false alarm.

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Palestine

Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme dissident Zionist groups such as IZL (Irgun Zwai Leumi) and the Stern Gang, all seeking to promote their aims through violence.

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Kenneth Edwick and friend

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Soldiers prepared for a training jump

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Members of 2 PARA

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2 PARA Sergeants' Mess

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Group photograph of Support Company, 2 PARA, Moascar Stadium, Egypt, 1954.

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