Military Service
Service Number: 1250120
Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 4th Canadian Div. Trench Mortar Bty.
He enlisted in the CEF on Oct 14, 1916.
Edward was killed in action, dying instantly by shell fire going into action near the village of Dury, during the Drocourt-Queant Line Operation. The soldier who was with him when he died wrote the following about that day:
"Once, in France, I sat on the rim of a shell-hole at daybreak when no one was awake, no one even above ground except my companion and me, and the silence was deadly. He was a boy from Winnipeg named Code, who was watching the last sunrise he would ever see, when suddenly the quiet was shattered by the opening of our barrage and the world in front of us over the German lines was torn asunder. " (Contributed by Kelley O'Rourke, Find a Grave ID 49348446.)
Edward is also remembered on a marker at St John's Anglican Cathedral Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Service Number: 1250120
Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 4th Canadian Div. Trench Mortar Bty.
He enlisted in the CEF on Oct 14, 1916.
Edward was killed in action, dying instantly by shell fire going into action near the village of Dury, during the Drocourt-Queant Line Operation. The soldier who was with him when he died wrote the following about that day:
"Once, in France, I sat on the rim of a shell-hole at daybreak when no one was awake, no one even above ground except my companion and me, and the silence was deadly. He was a boy from Winnipeg named Code, who was watching the last sunrise he would ever see, when suddenly the quiet was shattered by the opening of our barrage and the world in front of us over the German lines was torn asunder. " (Contributed by Kelley O'Rourke, Find a Grave ID 49348446.)
Edward is also remembered on a marker at St John's Anglican Cathedral Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Military Service
Service Number: 1250120
Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 4th Canadian Div. Trench Mortar Bty.
He enlisted in the CEF on Oct 14, 1916.
Edward was killed in action, dying instantly by shell fire going into action near the village of Dury, during the Drocourt-Queant Line Operation. The soldier who was with him when he died wrote the following about that day:
"Once, in France, I sat on the rim of a shell-hole at daybreak when no one was awake, no one even above ground except my companion and me, and the silence was deadly. He was a boy from Winnipeg named Code, who was watching the last sunrise he would ever see, when suddenly the quiet was shattered by the opening of our barrage and the world in front of us over the German lines was torn asunder. " (Contributed by Kelley O'Rourke, Find a Grave ID 49348446.)
Edward is also remembered on a marker at St John's Anglican Cathedral Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Service Number: 1250120
Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 4th Canadian Div. Trench Mortar Bty.
He enlisted in the CEF on Oct 14, 1916.
Edward was killed in action, dying instantly by shell fire going into action near the village of Dury, during the Drocourt-Queant Line Operation. The soldier who was with him when he died wrote the following about that day:
"Once, in France, I sat on the rim of a shell-hole at daybreak when no one was awake, no one even above ground except my companion and me, and the silence was deadly. He was a boy from Winnipeg named Code, who was watching the last sunrise he would ever see, when suddenly the quiet was shattered by the opening of our barrage and the world in front of us over the German lines was torn asunder. " (Contributed by Kelley O'Rourke, Find a Grave ID 49348446.)
Edward is also remembered on a marker at St John's Anglican Cathedral Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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