Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 03 May 1918

Second-Lieut. Edgar Oliver (M.G.C.), Wortley Avenue, Swinton, is in hospital with a bad fracture of the foot. He was one of the few survivors of a machine-gun company in the retreat from St. Quentin. Before joining the Army he was an accountant in Sheffield.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 24 May 1918

Sec.-Lieut. Edgar Oliver (M.G.C.), 7, Wortley Avenue, Swinton, a former Sheffield accountant, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in action last April near Villers-Bretonneux