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2010.015.065
Title
Portrait of Edward W. Berry.
Date
[19-].
Description
Photograph of Edward W. Berry (1908 -1920) wearing a suit; hair parted in the middle; dark background. Edward W.Berry was son of John Walter Berry and Lydia Bowman. He was the Langley's first Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
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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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