Soldiers’ Memorial Slype
Municipality/Province: Toronto, ON
Memorial number: 35090-002
Type: Monument - sandstone
Address: Adjacent to 59 Queen's Park Crescent East
Location: University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.6655283 Long: -79.3908283
Submitted by: Richard Toporoski. Soldiers’ Tower Committee, University of Toronto Alumni Association.
Between two of St. Michael’s College's residences — More and Fisher houses — is a passageway that connects Queen’s Park Crescent East and the college quad. The memorials for former students and graduates of St. Michael’s College School, as well as the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, who died in the two World Wars and the Korean War are inscribed along the wall.
There are 12 arched sandstone panels:
Panel 1 - St. Michael’s College crest with Motto in Greek.
Panel 2 - Greek lyric fragment by Simonides about those who died in the battle of Thermopylae.
Panel 3 - English translation of panel 2.
Panels 4 and 5 - Names from the First World War in alphabetical order; a cross at the top of each arch.
Panels 6 to 11 - Names from the Second World War in alphabetical order; a cross at the top of each arch.
Panel 12 – One name from the Korean War; a cross at the top of the arch.
Many American students attended St. Michael’s College and some of those shown on the memorial served in the American Forces.
Inscription found on memorial
[panel 1/panneau 1]
(crest with Motto in Greek)
SAINT MICHAEL’S
COLLEGE
HONOURS ITS MEMBERS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN WAR
REQUIESCANT IN PACE
[panel 2/panneau 2]
(3 lines in GREEK)
[panel 3/panneau 3]
IN PLACE OF LAMENTATION
THERE IS REMEMBRANCE
AND PITY IS BECOME PRAISE
[panel 4/panneau 4]
WORLD WAR I
JOSEPH CLAUDE BARKER
JOSEPH HERBERT BUTLER
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS DEFOE
JOSEPH DICK
CHARLES E. DOHERTY
C. EDWARD DOHERTY
EVELYN PERCY DORRELL
MAXWELL DOYLE
WILFRID LAURIER DOYLE
JOHN CECIL FEENEY
JOHN ARCHIBALD GATES
JOHN V. GUILFOYLE
BERNARD GLYNN
VINCENT JAMES HARRISON
CYRIL T. HOUSTON
JOHN H. HULSE
WILLIAM JACKMAN
CHARLES EDMUND KEEMLE
DONALD MACARTHUR
WILLIAM STANLEY MASSON
ROBERT MCBRADY
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN
[panel 5/panneau 5]
WORLD WAR I
JOHN F. MURPHY
CHARLES LOUIS PITTS
JOHN STANLEY REAUME
EMMANUEL ROCHEREAU
DE LA SABLIERE
PAUL SHEPPARD
HAROLD A. SMITH
WILLIAM HENRY SWAINSTON
MATTHEW MAURICE WALLACE
FRED WEBSTER
STERNDALE MURPHY
[panel 6/panneau 6]
WORLD WAR II
RONALD E. BALFOUR
FRANK BARDGETT
RICHARD LEO BENDER
GILLES BERTHIAUME
AUSTIN JOSEPH BISKEY
MCCARTHY MICHAEL BOLAN
FRANCIS VINCENT BREEN
GERALD BREEN
ROBERT E. BRICK
JOHN GLENN BRISLAN
WILLIAM FREDERICK BYRNE
BERNARD C. CAHILL
BARRIE P. CARDINAL
JOSEPH WILLIAM CARTER
JOHN H. CASEY
GREGORY J. CLANCY
THOMAS EDWARD CLARKE
WILLIAM JOSEPH CLARKE
JAMES IRVING CONHEADY
J. WILLIAM CONNORS
JOSEPH C. CORBALLY
DENNIS BLAIR CORCORAN
[panel 7/panneau 7]
WORLD WAR II
NICHOLAS COWAN
PAUL JOSEPH COZENS
ROBERT P. CUMMINS
LAWRENCE A. DOHERTY
ALFRED DRENNAN
KENNETH V. DUNNING
STEWART DUNNING
JAMES DURKIN
HENRY CHARLES EICHHORN
FRANK ETIENNE
IAN SINCLAIR FAIRLEY
DANIEL T. FISHER
MELVILLE FULLERTON
SARTO GAIN
RAYMOND P. GARVIN
JOSEPH E. GELINAS
ROBERT J. GIFFIN
EDWARD J. GILMORE
JOHN RICHARD GRIFFIN
WALTER J. GUSTAR
THOMAS MICHAEL HACKETT
FRANCIS WILLIAM HALL
[panel 8/panneau 8]
WORLD WAR II
GORDON HANDRAHAN
JOHN EDWIN HAVER
DONAL KEVIN HECTOR
EDWARD J. HELM
JOHN TIGHE HILL
LAWRENCE HORAHAN
IVAN J. HUGHES
ROBERT IVES
GREGORY L. JONES
JOHN HENRY KEARNEY
FRANCIS J. KELLY
FRANCIS FREDERICK KIRBY
WILLIAM T. KLERSY
JOSEPH LAWRENCE LALONDE
ARTHUR M. LEONARD
CHARLES HENRY LIVING
JOSEPH PAUL LYNES
J. MILES MACDONELL
DUNCAN JOSEPH MACKINNON
WILLIAM GEORGE MADDEN
ROBERT LINDSAY MAIN
RICHARD FRANCIS MALEY
[panel 9/panneau 9]
WORLD WAR II
PAUL MCALLISTER
ANTHONY J. MCCANN
CARL J. MCCONVEY
JAMES FRANCIS MCCORMICK
FRANCIS WILFRID MCGARRY
THOMAS E. MCGERAGLE
ANTHONY E. MCGRAW
THOMAS P. MCHALE
DUNCAN G. MCKAY
JAMES FREEBORN MCKEE
PAUL ROGER MCLEAN
WILLIAM EUGENE MCLEAN
JOHN MEADE
FATHER THOMAS E. MOONEY
JOHN ARTHUR MORAN
WILLIAM J. MORGAN
JOHN DONALD MORTON
JOSEPH ANSELM MORTON
ROBERT EUGENE MULLEN
JOHN JOSEPH MULLIGAN
JOHN L. MURDOCH
LEO NARDILLI
[panel 10/panneau 10]
WORLD WAR II
RAYMOND FRANCIS NOETH
GEORGE NOONAN
CHARLES E. O’BRIEN
LAWRENCE FRANCIS O’BRIEN
EDMUND M. O’DONNELL
MICHAEL B. O’GORMAN
LAWRENCE O’LOUGHLIN
JOHN FREDERICK PEAK
WILLIAM PEARSON
GEORGE PENDARVIS
TERRENCE BENEDICT PHELAN
ARTHUR VINCENT PLANT
HERBERT JOSEPH POUPORE
THOMAS A. PURVIS
MARTIAL C. ROBITAILLE
PAUL ROCHE
LEO A. ROGER
ALFRED HERBERT ROQUE
HERBERT ROSSBERG
JOHN HUGH RYAN
THOMAS PETER SCANDIFFIO
DAVID CARROLL SEITZ
[panel 11/panneau 11]
WORLD WAR II
LAWRENCE J. SEXTON
BRUCE CARROLL SLATTERY
HARRY SMITH
FREDERICK GORDON SPANNER
ANDREW A. STEPHEN
JOHN J. STEPHEN
JOHN FRANCIS STERIO
EDGAR SULLIVAN
MAURICE JOSEPH SULLIVAN
FRANK C. SUMMERS
GERARD JOSEPH TILLMANN
JAMES HERBERT VOLLMER
GEORGE HENRY WARREN-DARLEY
PAUL IRVING WEGMAN
JOHN WHELAN
VICTOR J. WINTZER
MAURICE DIER ZIMMERMAN
[panel 12/panneau 12]
KOREAN CONFLICT
EDWARD LAWRENCE CURTIN
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