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Edward Dale Brydon

Edward Dale Brydon

Male 1924 - 1945  (20 years)

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  • Name Edward Dale Brydon 
    Born 15 May 1924  Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Military Service 1943  Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • January 1943...
      Interviewing officers assesment...
      "Stocky lad, good education, alert and keen. Well motivated. Good appearance and manners. Very keen on pilot duties. Has over 30 hrs. logged solo in Taylorcraft. This lad should do well."

      "Applicant has been interested in Air Force for sometime. Parents refused to give consent when he was 17 and a half years. Has read technical literature - built model planes and taken instruction in flying. One brother in R.C.O.C. No parental objections now. Seems a steady, confident type, motivation sound. Accepts selection but prefers pilot."
    _STAT Never Married 
    Died 26 Apr 1945  Lubeck, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • killed overseas while serving in the RCAF
    Buried Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I33  Brydon family tree
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2020 

    Father Dr. William Hall Brydon,   b. 1 Dec 1879, King Twp., York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Oct 1962, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Ethel Dale,   b. 17 Mar 1893, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Apr 1943, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years) 
    Married 29 Apr 1914  Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Photos
    'Dale girls in lake'    		'Dale girls in lake'
    photo courtesy Robert Jenkins
    Histories
    'Sundridge cottage originals'    		'Sundridge cottage originals'
    2012 is the 100 year anniversary of the Dales, Beattys, Algies, Campbells and Brydons summer presence on Lake Bernard.

    Cropped off the right of the picture is Bill Algie's sons Mac (i218) and Harry (i216).
    First summer in Sundridge, Aug. 1912    		First summer in Sundridge, Aug. 1912
    the Dale family

    photo courtesy Robert Jenkins
    Articles and Galleries
    The Brampton Invasion    		The Brampton Invasion
    by James Gordon Beatty
    Uncle Ted's Diary    		Uncle Ted's Diary
    Thanks to Ethel Dale Sivell for many photos and stories, to Don and Dorothy Beatty for help putting names to faces in pictures plus more stories and Brydon Brown for copies of Ted's letters written from overseas.
    Uncle Ted's cinema    		Uncle Ted's cinema
    A movie poster sampling of the movies Edward Dale Brydon watched in early 1941
    Uncle Ted's snapshots    		Uncle Ted's snapshots
    Above Southern Ontario in the late 1940's    		Above Southern Ontario in the late 1940's
    From an air field on McLaughlin Road on the west edge of Brampton we fly over Peel County, Brampton and the farmers' fields that will later become Mississauga.
    Albums
    Brydon - Miller family, my Brydons    		Brydon - Miller family, my Brydons (98)
    From the Ettrick Valley in Selkirkshire to Ontario in 1830.
    Family ID F12  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 15 May 1924 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMilitary Service - 1943 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 26 Apr 1945 - Lubeck, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Ted Brydon     		ted-cockpit.JPG
    During flight training, 1943/44
    Ted Brydon    		Ted Brydon
    service portrait

    Headstones
    Brydon    		Brydon
    Edward Dale Brydon, Hamburg Cemetery
    Brydon    		Brydon
    Ted Brydon

    Histories
    Basketball team    		Basketball team
    Jack Garbutt and Ted Brydon
    also I think its Ken Jackson holding the ball

    photo courtesy Linda Garbutt
    Sunday school class    		Sunday school class
    Jack Garbutt, front right
    Ted Brydon, front left

    photo courtesy Linda Garbutt
    Ted at St. Andrews College.    		Ted at St. Andrews College.

    Articles and Galleries
    Uncle Ted's Diary    		Uncle Ted's Diary
    Thanks to Ethel Dale Sivell for many photos and stories, to Don and Dorothy Beatty for help putting names to faces in pictures plus more stories and Brydon Brown for copies of Ted's letters written from overseas.

    Newspapers
    95 fliers reported dead    		95 fliers reported dead
    The Toronto Star newspaper prints RCAF official casualty lists.
    Edward Brydon, previously missing, now killed

  • Notes 
    • Served in WW2, regimental number R 223069.

      The Luftwaffe buried Ted Brydon at Gnissau Cemetery. The grave was marked with a cross bearing the words, "Here lies an unknown English pilot. He died in action on 26.4.45".
      In the summer of 1947 his remains were exhumed and reburied at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany. A cemetery maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves commission. His gravesite can be located by looking for - Panel Number: 10A. E.12

      Attestation paper states he had a compund fracture of his right leg (tibia) at age 4.