Lieutenant-Colonel E.L. Luce
4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment

Times change and those of us in Wiltshire who have long roots may well not care for the changes. But for the future generations, the task and the challenge is to carry on, whatever changes may occur, those traditions and things of good report for the future.

(Quoted in Evening Advertiser, 12 Sep 1960, 5)

Born on 25 August 1907 in Alverstoke, Hampshire, Edward Lancelot Luce was the son of a Royal Navy vice admiral and a Territorial Army officer since 1929. He joined the 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment in 1932 and rose to major by 1942. In February, he was appointed commandant of the divisional battle school but returned in April to take command of the 4th Wiltshires.

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