Pfc. Rex Edwards 1914-1944

EDWARDS, JENSEN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 2/1/2021 at 07:16:38

3 August 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

Jones county added another name to the list of war dead this week when death of Pfc. Rex Edwards was reported to his parents. List now totals 15, including only men who are natives of the county.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Edwards received the telegram from the war department last Saturday notifying them of their son's death from wounds received in Italy on July 8. Pfc. Edwards died the same day he received the wounds. They had received a telegram a week earlier telling of his wounds.

Rex Edwards was born Dec. 14, 1915, in Saskatchewan, Canada. He came to Iowa with his parents at the age of seven. He graduated from Monmouth high school, and was employed on the farm. Later he worked for the Reid Hybrid company, Anamosa, and the Concrete Materials company, Cedar Rapids.

He was inducted into the service April 14, 1941, and was trained at Camp Claiborne, La. He was a member of the 133rd Infantry, 34th Division. Rex served 28 months overseas before his death.

He served in Ireland, England, Africa and on the Anzio beach head. He took part in the capture of Rome, and spent a five-day rest leave in that city.

He has three brothers in the service. Sergt. Neil P. Edwards is stationed in the South Pacific; Pvt. Clarence Edwards is in Normandy, and Pvt. William B. Edwards is in training at the Fity General hospital, Denver, Colo.

Also surviving are his parents, one sister, Mrs. Tom Jensen, jr., Anamosa; his maternal grandmother, and three nephews.