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Charles Edwards

In memory of:

Able Seaman Charles Edwards

April 16, 1945

Military Service

Service Number:

V/77053

Age:

18

Force:

Navy

Unit:

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Division:

H.M.C.S. Esquimalt

Additional Information

Son of Walter and Hilda M. Edwards of Port Arthur, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 512 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

THUNDER BAY (RIVERSIDE) CEMETERY
Ontario, Canada

Grave Reference:

Military Plot No. 4. Sec. 26.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of Charles Edwards– Charles Edwards, Navy, killed in action. Photo courtesy of Hillcrest High School - "Stairway of Honour" project. Eighty-four large portraits of students from the Second World War line both sides of the 55 stairs leading up to the school's auditorium. Most of the portraits have the rank and year of death of the student. Some portraits explain how the soldier died, but many were MIA and presumed dead. Each year, teachers from the grade 10 Canadian History course take their students to the stairway around November 11th to complete a project that deals directly with the pictures on the Stairway of Honour.

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    Photo of Charles Edwards
    Photo of Charles Edwards – Charles Edwards, Navy, killed in action. Photo courtesy of Hillcrest High School - "Stairway of Honour" project. Eighty-four large portraits of students from the Second World War line both sides of the 55 stairs leading up to the school's auditorium. Most of the portraits have the rank and year of death of the student. Some portraits explain how the soldier died, but many were MIA and presumed dead. Each year, teachers from the grade 10 Canadian History course take their students to the stairway around November 11th to complete a project that deals directly with the pictures on the Stairway of Honour.
  • Stained Glass Window– Stained glass window from St. John's Anglican Church, Thunder Bay, Ontario dedicated to Charles Edwards, KIA

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    Stained Glass Window
    Stained Glass Window – Stained glass window from St. John's Anglican Church, Thunder Bay, Ontario dedicated to Charles Edwards, KIA

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