copied from the Washington Post online:

Edward McAuley

Army Officer

Edward McAuley, 76, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who had maintained a home in the Washington area since 1965, died Feb. 23 at the Crofton Convalescent Center after a series of strokes. He lived in Odenton.

Col. McAuley enlisted in the Army in 1944 and saw infantry service in Europe during World War II.

He was commissioned after the war and served as an engineer in Korea during the Korean War. He later served in Vietnam, where he was a computer operations supervisor.

From the 1960s until he retired from active duty in 1974, he worked in computer and data processing assignments. He supervised several data processing centers and was stationed at Fort Belvoir when he retired from active duty.

After that, he served for a time in the mid-1970s as a computer systems consultant to the shah's military forces in Iran.

Mr. McAuley, who was born in New York, grew up in Ireland. He attended Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was a 1971 business administration graduate of the University of Maryland.

He had served at Fort Meade as a chapter president of the Military Order of the World Wars. His hobbies included collecting Irish books.

His marriage to Ursula H.K. McAuley ended in divorce.

Survivors include three sons, Patrick, of Herndon, Clyde, of Pittsburgh, and Michael, of Houston; and seven grandchildren.