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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
August 29, 1881
Zion, Hope Township, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 26, 1914
Port Hope, Ontario
Death:
September 11, 1917
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of William and Agnes Edwards, of Port Hope, Ontario. Lieutenant Edwards enlisted early in the war as a Lieutenant. As he was not qualified, he attended Military School in Peterborough where he won the rank of Captain. He enlisted with the 39th Battalion on 26 December 1914.
Additional citations
Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
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Photo of Gilbert Edwards
Book of Remembrance (A record of the men of Port Hope who participated in the Great War of 1914-1918)" by James A. Elliott, Chairman of Committee, Port Hope, Jan 1, 1919 (Transcribed by Peter Bolton 2001) -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 233 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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