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Roll Call Lance Corporal Edwin Blick {Ted}

Ted Blick served with HQ Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment during World War II, and took part in the campaigns in Sicily, Italy and Arnhem.

He served in the Pioneer Platoon during the Battle of Arnhem and spent much of his time fighting with the rest of the Platoon and a contingent of glider pilots North of the Divisional HQ at the Hartenstein.

Ted was wounded, during the withdrawal on the night of 25/26 September 1944, by an enemy artillery barrage which killed Pte Robert Holden, and was later taken Prisoner of War.

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Listed Operations

09/09/1943 – 01/05/1944 Italy
10/07/1943 – 17/08/1943 Sicily (Operation Husky)
17/09/1944 – 25/09/1944 Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)

Airborne Forces service history

HQ Coy, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, (Lance Corporal)