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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
48th Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
January 21, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 20, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
January 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B.A. VII. A. 12.
Additional information
Son of Angus Compston Heighington and Marguerite Heighington. Husband of Dorothea Heighington, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Biography
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Photo of Edward Heighington
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Badge
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me. -
Group Photo
Group photo of Zeta Psi fraternity members shows Heighington front row centre. From Torontonensis, University of Toronto's yearbook, 1936. -
Group Photo
Group photo of Zeta Psi fraternity members shows Heighington in second row, second from photo left, seated beside David Selwyn Holmested (sometimes spelled Holmestead) who also was killed in the war. From Torontonensis yearbook 1935. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
This stone stele is located in the chapel of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. “AS DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE”, “TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE TWO GREAT WARS”. Photo: Mana Sadeghipour, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 332 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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