Vernon Edge

ASN:34253235

PFC Vernon Edge

Vernon Marshall Edge registered for the draft on July 1, 1941. Born March 27, 1920, he was from White Oak, North Carolina. At the time of his registration he was employed by Willie Faircloth in Fayetteville, North Carolina. This twenty-one-year-old was 5-8, 135 pounds with a light complexion, gray eyes, and blonde hair. There were no identifying marks listed on his registration card.

PVT Edge received training at Camp Claiborne then became a member of the 319th Field Artillery, A-Battery of the 82nd Airborne Division, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

He traveled with the battalion to North Africa arriving in Casablanca May 10, 1943, and fought in the major campaigns of Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Normandy, Holland, Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe

 

Company Morning Reports

Company Morning Reports were produced every morning by the individual Army units to record personnel matters. The following events for PFC Vernon Edge were reported:

  • February 5, 1944, from duty to furlough 5 days at 0900. Station:  Ballyscullion, Northern Ireland.

  • February 10, 1944, from furlough 5 days to duty at 1500. Station:  Ballyscullion, Northern Ireland.

  • February 17, 1944, assigned and joined A-Battery from from B-Battery 319th Glider FA Bn. Station:  Camp Ballyscullion, Northern Ireland.

  • March 14, 1944, from duty to furlough (5 days) at 0600. Station:  Papillon Hall, Lubenham, England.

  • March 19, 1944, from furlough (5 days) to duty 1900. Station:  Papillon Hall, Lubenham, England.

  • June 15, 1944, duty to hospital Wounded in Action, 6 June ‘44

  • July 5, 1944, from Absent Sick Hospital to drop from roles on the 8th. Station:  Papillon Hall.

  • July 9, 1944, assigned and joined A-Battery from the 10th replacement depot, MOS531 (battle casualty). 

  • July 24, 1944, from duty to furlough 5 days Manchester, England at 0600. Station: Papillon Hall.

  • July 29, 1944, from furlough 5 days Manchester, England to duty 2300. Station: Papillon Hall.

The Adjusted Service Rating Score (ASR) was a system the U.S. Army used at the end of the war to determine when soldiers were eligible for discharge. PCC Vernon Edge was one of many “High Point” soldiers with a score over 85 points and discharged from the military on September 27, 1945.

PFC Vernon Edge appeares in the A-Battery group photo taken June 20, 1945 in Epinal, France.

His service was awarded with the Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished Merit Badge, Purple Heart, European/African Middle Eastern Service Medal with six bronze service stars, and one bronze service arrowhead.

Vernon Edge, 79, died August 14, 1999.

God bless this hero.