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Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
1942c Canada, Ontario, Toronto,
Victor Joseph Edwards in his winter uniform with his sister Mary before going overseas
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
May be from the Toronto Telegraham
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
probably from the Toronto Telegraham newspaper
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards and his older brother James George Edwards, before shipping off to England c1942
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Post Card from Victor to his parents while visiting his father's relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
July 15 1942,
Dear Mom & Pop,
Here I am enjoying a weeks leave in Northampton having a swell time, everybody is wonderful to me. Am meeting all the relatives here. Will write about them when I get back to camp.
So long for now, Vic.
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Nov 1942,
Visiting relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
"The National Fire Service (UK), The Home Guard (UK) and Rescue Squad (UK) and us"
"Us" being Victor Joseph Edwards & his older brother James George Edwards standing in the back.
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards' second grave marker, two angles, by road. (The first was a wooden cross, the third is a standard issue war gravestone) I believe he was removed from his original burial site and reburied.
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Order of CanadianWidows & Mothers of the Great War, Silver Cross Women of the British Empire.
Awrded to victors mom 1964. (She lost the original and had it replaced)
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards' mom wearing her Silver Cross.
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
married:
Victor Joseph Edwards to Ileene Marguerite Hutchinson
May 16 1942, Parliament Street United Church, Toronto.
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
This is a photo his mother received from Graves Registration & Enquires (Records) C.M.F. GS RE PC9
"This is a temporary wooden cross which the Imperial War Graves Commission will replace with a permanent headstone"
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
probably from the Toronto Telegram newspaper
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
Post Card from Scotland to his parents.
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
May 28 1943
Dear Mom Pop
Here I am well fed
and fine and with
everyting going swell
hope all is the same
with you and every
one. Received your letter
will be writing as
soon as I can
Cherio Love Vic
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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1942c Canada, Ontario, Toronto, Victor Joseph Edwards in his winter uniform with his sister Mary before going overseas
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May be from the Toronto Telegraham
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probably from the Toronto Telegraham newspaper
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Victor Joseph Edwards and his older brother James George Edwards, before shipping off to England c1942
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Post Card from Victor to his parents while visiting his father's relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. July 15 1942, Dear Mom & Pop, Here I am enjoying a weeks leave in Northampton having a swell time, everybody is wonderful to me. Am meeting all the relatives here. Will write about them when I get back to camp. So long for now, Vic.
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Nov 1942, Visiting relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. "The National Fire Service (UK), The Home Guard (UK) and Rescue Squad (UK) and us" "Us" being Victor Joseph Edwards & his older brother James George Edwards standing in the back.
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Victor Joseph Edwards' second grave marker, two angles, by road. (The first was a wooden cross, the third is a standard issue war gravestone) I believe he was removed from his original burial site and reburied.
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Order of CanadianWidows & Mothers of the Great War, Silver Cross Women of the British Empire. Awrded to victors mom 1964. (She lost the original and had it replaced)
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Victor Joseph Edwards' mom wearing her Silver Cross.
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married: Victor Joseph Edwards to Ileene Marguerite Hutchinson May 16 1942, Parliament Street United Church, Toronto.
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This is a photo his mother received from Graves Registration & Enquires (Records) C.M.F. GS RE PC9 "This is a temporary wooden cross which the Imperial War Graves Commission will replace with a permanent headstone"
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probably from the Toronto Telegram newspaper
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Post Card from Scotland to his parents. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire May 28 1943 Dear Mom Pop Here I am well fed and fine and with everyting going swell hope all is the same with you and every one. Received your letter will be writing as soon as I can Cherio Love Vic
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 157 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy
By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.
The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
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