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Son of Horace Bruce and Elizabeth Irwin Kippen, of Toronto. Enlisted in 1914.
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Lieutenant Arnold Aglen Kippen
Lt. Arnold A. Kippen's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses.
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Lieutenant Arnold Aglen Kippen
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content."
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Lieutenant Arnold Aglen Kippen
St. Paul's Church in Toronto has more than 30 separate memorials from the First World War, including windows, chancel screens, tablets, panels, and artifacts. In loving memory of Arnold A Kippen, Lieutenant and Acting Captain, who enlisted October 1914 with the 19th Battalion C.E.F. and was afterwards transferred to the 75th Battalion. He was severely wounded near Vimy Ridge March 1st 1917 and at Arleus April 1918. He was killed in action September 2 1918 at the taking of the Drocourt-Queant Line France. Age 24 years. He took the only way and followed it to a glorious end.
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Lt. Arnold A. Kippen's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses.
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Detail of Lt. Arnold A. Kippen's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour.
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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content."
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St. Paul's Church in Toronto has more than 30 separate memorials from the First World War, including windows, chancel screens, tablets, panels, and artifacts. In loving memory of Arnold A Kippen, Lieutenant and Acting Captain, who enlisted October 1914 with the 19th Battalion C.E.F. and was afterwards transferred to the 75th Battalion. He was severely wounded near Vimy Ridge March 1st 1917 and at Arleus April 1918. He was killed in action September 2 1918 at the taking of the Drocourt-Queant Line France. Age 24 years. He took the only way and followed it to a glorious end.
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 442 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. 200 metres from the D939 the cemetery is signposted to the left. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long.
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