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Galerie numérique de Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
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Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
1942c Canada, Ontario, Toronto,
Victor Joseph Edwards in his winter uniform with his sister Mary before going overseas
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
May be from the Toronto Telegraham
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
probably from the Toronto Telegraham newspaper
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards and his older brother James George Edwards, before shipping off to England c1942
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Post Card from Victor to his parents while visiting his father's relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
July 15 1942,
Dear Mom & Pop,
Here I am enjoying a weeks leave in Northampton having a swell time, everybody is wonderful to me. Am meeting all the relatives here. Will write about them when I get back to camp.
So long for now, Vic.
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Nov 1942,
Visiting relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
"The National Fire Service (UK), The Home Guard (UK) and Rescue Squad (UK) and us"
"Us" being Victor Joseph Edwards & his older brother James George Edwards standing in the back.
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards' second grave marker, two angles, by road. (The first was a wooden cross, the third is a standard issue war gravestone) I believe he was removed from his original burial site and reburied.
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Order of CanadianWidows & Mothers of the Great War, Silver Cross Women of the British Empire.
Awrded to victors mom 1964. (She lost the original and had it replaced)
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Victor Joseph Edwards' mom wearing her Silver Cross.
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
married:
Victor Joseph Edwards to Ileene Marguerite Hutchinson
May 16 1942, Parliament Street United Church, Toronto.
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
This is a photo his mother received from Graves Registration & Enquires (Records) C.M.F. GS RE PC9
"This is a temporary wooden cross which the Imperial War Graves Commission will replace with a permanent headstone"
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
probably from the Toronto Telegram newspaper
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
Post Card from Scotland to his parents.
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
May 28 1943
Dear Mom Pop
Here I am well fed
and fine and with
everyting going swell
hope all is the same
with you and every
one. Received your letter
will be writing as
soon as I can
Cherio Love Vic
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Galerie numérique de
Sapeur Victor Joseph Edwards
From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Galerie d'images
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Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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1942c Canada, Ontario, Toronto, Victor Joseph Edwards in his winter uniform with his sister Mary before going overseas
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May be from the Toronto Telegraham
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probably from the Toronto Telegraham newspaper
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Victor Joseph Edwards and his older brother James George Edwards, before shipping off to England c1942
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Post Card from Victor to his parents while visiting his father's relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. July 15 1942, Dear Mom & Pop, Here I am enjoying a weeks leave in Northampton having a swell time, everybody is wonderful to me. Am meeting all the relatives here. Will write about them when I get back to camp. So long for now, Vic.
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Nov 1942, Visiting relatives in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. "The National Fire Service (UK), The Home Guard (UK) and Rescue Squad (UK) and us" "Us" being Victor Joseph Edwards & his older brother James George Edwards standing in the back.
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Victor Joseph Edwards' second grave marker, two angles, by road. (The first was a wooden cross, the third is a standard issue war gravestone) I believe he was removed from his original burial site and reburied.
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Order of CanadianWidows & Mothers of the Great War, Silver Cross Women of the British Empire. Awrded to victors mom 1964. (She lost the original and had it replaced)
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Victor Joseph Edwards' mom wearing her Silver Cross.
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married: Victor Joseph Edwards to Ileene Marguerite Hutchinson May 16 1942, Parliament Street United Church, Toronto.
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This is a photo his mother received from Graves Registration & Enquires (Records) C.M.F. GS RE PC9 "This is a temporary wooden cross which the Imperial War Graves Commission will replace with a permanent headstone"
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probably from the Toronto Telegram newspaper
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Post Card from Scotland to his parents. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire May 28 1943 Dear Mom Pop Here I am well fed and fine and with everyting going swell hope all is the same with you and every one. Received your letter will be writing as soon as I can Cherio Love Vic
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. 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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Cimetière de guerre canadien de la Moro Italie
Le cimetière de guerre canadien de la Moro se trouve dans la région de San Donato dans la commune d'Ortona, province de Chieti, et est situé sur des terres élevées, près de la mer, juste à l'est de la route côtière adriatique principale (route no SS16). Si vous êtes à Rome, vous pouvez vous y rendre en prenant l'autoroute A25 (Rome - Pescara). Vous n'avez qu'à bifurquer sur l'autoroute A14 et la quitter à Ortona. La route latérale qui relie le cimetière à la route principale passe sous une arche attenante à la petite église de San Donato. Le cimetière est toujours ouvert et peut être visité en tout temps.
Pendant l'hiver de 1943, les armées allemandes en Italie défendaient une ligne qui s'étendait depuis la mer Thyrénéenne au nord de Naples, jusqu'à l'Adriatique au sud d'Ortona. L'objectif des Alliés consistait à enfoncer cette ligne et à s'emparer de Rome. De son côté, la 1re Division de l'infanterie canadienne devait franchir la rivière Moro et s'emparer d'Ortona. En janvier 1944, les Corps d'armée canadien choisit ce site, afin d'y inhumer ceux qui périrent au cours de la bataille d'Ortona et des combats livrés pendant les semaines qui l'avaient précédée et suivie. Aujourd'hui, on y trouve 1 651 sépultures dont plus de 50 non identifiées et celles de 1 375 Canadiens.
Pour plus d’informations, visitez la Commission des sépultures de guerre du Commonwealth (site disponible en anglais seulement).
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