In Memory of
EADIE JOHN ALEXANDER
B/73058
Royal Canadian Regiment
Corporal
who dead age 27
on 23 July 1943
Remembered with honour
AGIRA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Born 11 Jan 1916, Foam Lake, Wynyard Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada;
Son of Robert and Sarah (Lillico) Eadie;
Sebastiano Giannitto, 2010-05-30
Contributor: Jimmy Jimbo **August 12, 1943
Island Boy Killed in Action on Sicily
The sad news, that his son, Corporal John Eadie, had been killed in action on July 23, was received by his father, Robert Eadie of Green Bush.
John Eadie, 26 years of age, was born in Green Bush, but was well known in Little Current, where he attended school and later worked as a driver for B.J. Becks.
He was one of the first to enlist from here in 1939, and has been in England for some time before the invasion of Italy.
EADIE--In loving memory of Johnny Eadie, 1916 - 1943.
The ballad of Johnny Eadie
It was on a winter's day when Johnny Eadie sailed away
To old England far across the deep blue sea.
And his heart was gay and light to be in the freedom fight,
This young Canadian who had dreams of victory.
'Cause in time they were to come against the foe.
And as he marched he had good faith in the famous forty-eighth,
Those brave highlanders of Canada's pride and show.
Refrain
Oh, Johnny Eadie we salute you
You're just one who helped to see we did not fall,
And our courage and great endurance
Will forever be remembered by us all.
In the year of forty-three, on the isle of Sicily
This lad, he fell for his dear Canadian land.
And his duty it was done, in a battle that was won,
But young Johnny did not live to see the end.
He now lies 'neath foreign soil
Where Sicilians live and toil
And his grave is there to see e're you may pass.
He was killed in No Man's Land
For the liberty of man, now his cross stands there, a symbol of his great task.
Oh, Johnny Eadie we salute you
You are the one who helped to see we did not fall
And your courage and great endurance will
Forever be remembered by us all.
Written by Stanley J. Mills who grew up in Little Current and was in the same regiment as Johnny Eadie.
Joyce Brown.
Manitoulin Expositor, November 19, 2008
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