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Digital gallery of Lieutenant Oliver Lorne Cameron
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Lieutenant Oliver Lorne Cameron
1914-1918 Memorial tablet, Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, 300 Bloor St.
West, Toronto, Ontario. This congregation was established in 1887, and in
1925 became the Bloor Street United Church. The tablet was unveiled on May
16th, 1920. It was inscribed: "In memory of the men of Bloor Street
Presbyterian Church who went out to battle and died for Freedom's cause.
They feared not Death and meeting it they won the Victor's Crown."
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Lieutenant Oliver Lorne Cameron
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of Oliver Lorne Cameron. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks.
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Lieutenant Oliver Lorne Cameron
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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Memorial Plaque
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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Photographs of the Cameron brothers - published on August 21st, 1918 in the Toronto Star.
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Article
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Humberside Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario.
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From the Toronto Star for 16 August 1918.
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Torontonensis 1913 (University of Toronto Year Book), pg. 155.
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1914-1918 Memorial tablet, Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, 300 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. This congregation was established in 1887, and in 1925 became the Bloor Street United Church. The tablet was unveiled on May 16th, 1920. It was inscribed: "In memory of the men of Bloor Street Presbyterian Church who went out to battle and died for Freedom's cause. They feared not Death and meeting it they won the Victor's Crown."
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteer Mike Symmonds
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The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of Oliver Lorne Cameron. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks.
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Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161. Page 487 of 1024.
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 379 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME Somme, France
Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.
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