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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Wiltshire Regiment
Division:
2nd Battalion
Enlistment:
United Kingdom
Death:
April 20, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVII. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edmonds, of Simcoe, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Harold Sylvester Edmonds
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of Harold Edmonds
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Harold Edmonds
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "2nd Lt H. S. EDMONDS M.C. Wilts R." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 577 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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