Military service
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Son of David and Alice Ashdown, of 33, Gledhill Avenue East, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Albert Henry Ashdown
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Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ¿ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR¿.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Albert Henry Ashdown's name is included on the SOE War Memorial.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ¿ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR¿.
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Albert Henry Ashdown's name is included on the SOE War Memorial.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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