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Object Description

Object ID

2015.048.003

Title

Ed Berry with classmates at St. John's College, Oxford.

Date

1919.

Description

1 photograph : b&w ; Ed Berry with classmates at St. John's College, Oxford; students are arranged in three rows; there are four men in the back row, five in the middle row, and six in the front row; Ed Berry is second from the left in the middle row; all students are wearing suits except for the man behind Berry in the back row on the left, who is wearing a uniform.

People/Subject

Berry, Edward Weldon (Eddie)

Edward Weldon Berry was born in Ontario February 6, 1894, and is the oldest son of Lydia and John Walter Berry. Edward was a graduate of arts at UBC. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and was attending St. John's College until his death January 23, 1920 at the age of 26. The cause of death was heart failure, caused by having sustained shell shock and gassing in WWI. Lieut. Berry had served overseas at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Passchendaele, before being gassed at Loos in 1917.

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