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Son of Angus Compston Heighington and Marguerite Heighington. Husband of Dorothea Heighington, of Montreal, Quebec.
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Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt 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.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt 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.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
Group photo of Zeta Psi fraternity members shows Heighington front row centre. From Torontonensis, University of Toronto's yearbook, 1936.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
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.
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
From the Toronto Star 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
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.
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Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
From the Toronto Telegram August 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Edward Nesbitt Heighington
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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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.
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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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.
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Group photo of Zeta Psi fraternity members shows Heighington front row centre. From Torontonensis, University of Toronto's yearbook, 1936.
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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.
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From the Toronto Star 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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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.
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1940. 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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From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 332 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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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