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Young man in a military uniform, peaked cap, and puttees standing before a studio backdrop of trees and a pedestal.

Edmund J Dorban

Co-Op, St Luke’s Street / 57 Searle Street, Toronto House

History of the Co-Op St Luke's Street

1911

John Charles Dorban, 50, grocer, b Herts

Annie Elizabeth, 51, b Melbourn

Hilda Harriett, 20, shop assistant drapers, b Cambridge

Edmund John, 17, grocers apprentice, b Cambridge

Reginald William, 16, grocers apprentice, b Cambridge


1913 Co-op / Toronto House

John C Dorban, grocer tea dealer and newsagent

Annie Elizabeth


1917

Edmund John Dorban: Private, 88th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 09/10/17. Age 23.

http://histonroadcemetery.org/graves/wargraves/ww1/ejdorban/

A weathered, low-lying rectangular stone marker in a grassy cemetery bearing an engraved inscription to Edmund John Dorban.

E J Dorban engraved on parents’ grave in Histon Road cemetery

A newspaper clipping titled Cambridge Men Give Their Lives detailing the death of Private Edmund J. Dorban in France.

Edmund J Dorban obituary


1970

Lewis Stopher

Building dates

  • Built by 1899
Source for this date
  • Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900

Tags

  • world war one

Projects

  • Searle Street
  • St Luke's Street

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