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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
164296
Age:
36
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
March 9, 1881
Dover, Kent, England
Enlistment:
September 14, 1915
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Death:
November 2, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Edward King, of Dover, Kent, England. Husband of Harriett King, of Crabble Dover, England.
Additional citations
Military Medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Edward King
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Commemorative Plaque
Today the 1914-1918 war memorial plaque for the Massey Harris Company is located on the outside of their former head office at King Street West, Toronto, Ontario. This plaque includes a separate list for the men who were employed at the Brantford Works. -
Family photo
Photo: Edward T King, Harriet, children. Edward King Sr. of Dover England worked as a stoker on steam vessels and later on pilot boats in Dover Harbour. In 1904 Edward Sr. m. Harriet, 2 children Iris 1906 UK, Edward Thomas b. Brantford Ontario. (A brother of Edward sr. had emigrated to Canada; on his recommendation Edward, Harriet, and Iris followed in 1912. Edward asked that if he were killed, his family return to England, seeing no future for them Canada -as they did in 1920. Iris m. James Crutchfield, son of UK casualty James H Crutchfield in 1929. Mother Harriet died in 1953. (extract from Dover War Memorial Project - website biography). -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward King
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward King
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward King
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward King
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 268 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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