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Object Description

Object ID

2015.048.002

Title

Portrait of Ed Berry in uniform.

Date

[ca. 1917].

Description

1 photograph : b&w ; full length portrait of Ed Berry in uniform during the First World War; he is turned slightly but is facing the camera, and has his hands resting on the end of a barrel of a rifle, the butt end of which is on the ground; he is wearing a military cap and his pants have a stripe up the side; there appears to be a coat draped over his shoulder on the right side.

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.

World War, 1914-1918

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