Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 22, 1888
Kilmacolm, Scotland
Enlistment:
October 2, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 10, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. E. 9.
Additional information
Son of William Burling Abbey and Katharine Eleanor Abbey, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
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Circumstance of death
Extract from Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War for Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey Source: Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War Mikan record:46246 Volume Number:31829_B016711 Page:9 -
Photo of Edwin Austin Abbey
Photo from the book An American Soldier: Letters of Edwin Austin Abbey. now on http://www.archive.org/stream/americansoldierl00abbe -
Press Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
St Thomas (Anglican) Church
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death. -
War Memorial Window
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry. -
Memorial
A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Lt. Edwin Austin Abbey. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario. -
Letter
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Thelus Military Cemetery
The Thelus Military Cemetery located at the foot of Vimy Ridge, just outside of Thelus, France. May they rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Grave Marker
Photo of grave courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 189 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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