With the help of Canadian Armed Forces veteran paratrooper, Adam Winnicki, Ed Marshall will make his first jump in nearly 80 years on June 13 in Cayuga, Ont.
100-year-old Ed Marshall, who was with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during WW2 but never saw action as he was still in training when the war ended, at the Sunnybrook Veteran’s Residence in Toronto on May 30.Ed Marshall hadn’t even turned 18 when he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
“I have always wanted a high jump and to enjoy the flight down under a parachute,” he said from Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in. “So far, it’s all been military and they’re all around 200 metres or about 600 feet. And they’re all low because they want to get you on the ground as fast as possible so you don’t get a lot of time to enjoy them.”veteran paratrooper, Adam Winnicki, Mr. Marshall will make his first jump in nearly 80 years on June 13 at Cayuga, Ont., outside Hamilton.
The event has been called the 100 Year Jump and Mr. Marshall is hoping to raise $100,000 – $1,000 for each year of his life – for Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. “The older I get the more I dote over babies and young kids,” he said. “I just want to help them if I have seen something wrong.”
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