Photo of Alvin Sturgess
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Alvin Sturgess.
This photograph is on the back of the tenth leaf of Alex Brown's album. This leaf has 4 pockets for photos on each side. In the top left pocket is a photo of a newspaper clipping with the headline "LANDS IN ENGLAND" and a photo of George Elms. The top right photo is of Alvin Sturgess. At bottom left is a photo of George Brown and bottom right is Ernie Taylor.
- Notes
- Alex Brown is a local Whitby area veteran. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Clarence Alvin Sturgess was born at Whitby in 1906. He worked as a locksmith and hardware salesman [sales person] in Whitby, Oshawa and Pickering. He served in the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Whitby Branch, David T. Campbell Masonic Lodge and a life Member of the Canadian Scottish Club. He died as Whitby in 1989 and is buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery, Whitby. - Inscriptions
- Alvin Sturgess R.C.O.C. [Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps]
- Date of Original
- c.1940
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 15 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10cm
Image Height: 15cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Alex_Brown_Page_010_Verso_002
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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