Harold Kingsley Edge was born in New Ferry in 1897. He was the second son of William Henry Edge, who ran the butcher's shop founded by his father John in 1844, and which is still run by the Edge family today. Harold was born in the flat above the shop (pictured).Harold's elder brother Stan went into the family business, leaving the way open for Harold to go to art school. That promising career was interrupted when he joined up at 17.He enlisted at Wrexham into the 1st Denbigh Hussars Yeomanry and was moved to France with the Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps. He took part in the battle of Cambrai.Cambrai had been in German hands since August 1914 and it remained as such until 9 October 1918; but the Third Army came very close to it in November 1917, when the furthest points gained were about a mile from the town. Harold was killed on 1 December 1917, the day of a massive German counter attack.

Simon Edge