Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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.

Press Clipping

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.

Grave Marker – Photo of grave courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.

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

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)

Letter

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