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Object Description

Object ID

1103

Title

Langley's first high school class.

Date

1909.

Description

Langley's first high school class. Back row (left to right): Angus McDonald (teacher); Gladys Wilson; May Simonds; Merle Smith; Nellie Smith (later Lattimer); Beatrice Simonds (later Shannon); Velma Cornock (later Hudson); Goldie Robertson (later Lehman); Viola Norman (later Cameron); Georgina Porter (later Smith). Middle row: Bessie Gillespie (later Ross); Jim MacDonald; Fred Forman; P.Y. Porter; Eddie Berry; Herman Hagelstein; Nellie Powell (later Porter). Front row: Cyril Butler; Rex Moore; Hazlit Simonds; Joe Forman; Wallace Mufford; Leslie Smith; Vera Norman (later Brockenwagon).

People/Subject

12 3

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.

Brockenwagen, Vera (nee Norman)

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Butler, Cyril

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Cameron, Viola (nee Norman)

Viola Cameron (nee Norman) was married to S. Cameron.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Children

See Also: school portraits
Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

Forman, Fred

Fred Forman, son of William and Mary Forman, was born in B.C. April 21, 1893.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Forman, Joe

Joseph E. Forman was born July 15, 1895, in B.C. Son of William and Mary Forman.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Hagelstein, Herman

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Hodgson, Velma (nee Cornock)

Velma Annie Cornock married Geoffrey Francis Hodgson February 2, 1914.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

Lattimer, Elizabeth Ellen (Nellie) (nee Smith)

Elizabeth Ellen (Nellie) Smith married David Andrew Lattimer in Milner on September 29, 1921. Nellie died in Milner on February 5, 1956 at the age of 61.

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