Mrs. Edith Louisa Coldrey of Ottawa, Ontario, was the 1943 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1943, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On May 3, 1917, her son, Sapper Kendall Augustus Coldrey, was killed while serving with the Canadian Engineers.