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Military service
Service number:
490883
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
204th Squadron
Birth:
July 27, 1896
Brampton, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 9, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 4.
Additional information
Son of Edwy S. Howard and Lelia R. Howard, of Toronto, Ontario Lieutenant Howard was a Graduate of the University of Toronto.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
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Newspaper Clipping
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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 2
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Funds were raised by the Alumni Federation (now called the University of Toronto Alumni Association.) The name of "Lt. G.E.C. HOWARD R.A.F." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations.
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Grave marker
Blankenberge Town Cemetery - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
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Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Edwy Caldwell Howard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 588 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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