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Son of John T. and Harriet A. Aggett, of 10, Scollard St., Toronto.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916.
Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
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.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of the men and women lost to the University in the Great War. Carved on the Memorial Screen are the names of those lost in that struggle.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who died 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.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Harvey Aggett
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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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 courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England.
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The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of the men and women lost to the University in the Great War. Carved on the Memorial Screen are the names of those lost in that struggle.
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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 funds for bells in memory of those who died 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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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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