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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
98th Squadron
Birth:
April 10, 1898
Barrie, Ontario
Death:
July 16, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
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Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
World War I Memorial tablet
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content." -
Inscription
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Cenotaph
Barrie, Ontario -
Memorial
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial Street
Barrie street named in honour of Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton with a poppy. -
Newspaper clipping
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton....(British Home Child)......KIA July 16th 1918......From the Barrie Examiner c.1918......... -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Basil Gowan Morton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 591 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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