A photograph of three Woodbridge boys in France: Ed Morgan, Addison Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston, 1916.
A photograph of three Woodbridge boys in France: Ed Morgan, Addison Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston, 1916.
Ed Morgan served overseas alongside fellow Woodbridge residents Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston.
Ed was a member of the Machine Gun Section of “C” Squadron of the seventh Canadian Montreal Rifles in the First Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was last seen working a machine gun with Robert Johnston on June 2 to repel a German attack during the Battle of Zillebeke. Ed’s father received word a few days later that his son was missing and believed to be killed in action.
When friends served together, their bonds grew deep. Men would often risk their lives and defences to protect each other and bring back their friends’ bodies from no-man’s-land. When they were unsuccessful in protecting each other, they tried to see them buried with as much reverence as possible.
City of Vaughan Archives: MG 30
A photograph of three Woodbridge boys in France: Ed Morgan, Addison Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston, 1916.
A photograph of three Woodbridge boys in France: Ed Morgan, Addison Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston, 1916.
Ed Morgan served overseas alongside fellow Woodbridge residents Alexander Mackenzie and Robert Johnston.
Ed was a member of the Machine Gun Section of “C” Squadron of the seventh Canadian Montreal Rifles in the First Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was last seen working a machine gun with Robert Johnston on June 2 to repel a German attack during the Battle of Zillebeke. Ed’s father received word a few days later that his son was missing and believed to be killed in action.
When friends served together, their bonds grew deep. Men would often risk their lives and defences to protect each other and bring back their friends’ bodies from no-man’s-land. When they were unsuccessful in protecting each other, they tried to see them buried with as much reverence as possible.
City of Vaughan Archives: MG 30