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Remembering World War II
Malcolm Stewart Edwards
Malcolm Stewart Edwards
Private
F/88397
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
January 6, 1924
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, NS
June 9, 1941
Sydney, NS
Sydney Mines, NS
17 (actual age at enlistment)
5 feet, 6 inches
Light
Brown
Brown
Single
Labourer
Presbyterian
Charles Edwards (Father) Sydney Mines, NS
June 9, 1944 (Killed in Action)
20
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France
VI. G. 7.
Commemorated on Page 299 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 26
Malcolm Stewart Edwards was the son of Charles S. Edwards and Josephine Edwards, of Sydney Mines,
Nova Scotia. Two brothers also served during WWII. John William Edwards, was killed in action on
September 25, 1944, while serving with the Lanark & Renfrew Scottish Regiment. Clarence Edwards
served with the Canadian Army.
At enlistment Private Edwards gave his year of birth as 1922; however he was born in 1924. He
completed training in Canada and went overseas disembarking in the United Kingdom on March 11,
1942. He was taken on strength with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders on June 18, 1942.
He embarked the United Kingdom on June 3, 1944 and landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Three days
later he was killed in action. He was buried in a field east of Chateau les Buissons, just outside of the
orchard, in Guichainville, Normandy, France. In 1946 his remains were reburied in the Beny-sur-Mer
Canadian War Cemetery.
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