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Digital gallery of Private Walter Parker
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
Pte. Walter Parker's name is include at the top of this memorial plaque dedicated to members of the Toronto Fire Department who served in WWI. This plaque was placed by the Toronto Fire Fighters' Association and is located in the front entrance of Toronto's old City Hall, Queen Street.
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
The Firefighter's WWI memorial plaque may be viewed in the lobby of Toronto's old City Hall, Queen Street. The plaque is just behind the doors that may be seen in this photo behind Toronto's WWI Cenotaph.
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
Pte. Parker's original attestation - signed when he enlisted in the war. This confirms his occupation as a fireman.
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
This photo of Walter Parker's name (third from bottom on right) at Menin Gate was taken during in August 2010 during our family's visit to Ypres. My eyes fell upon this section of the Gate during the Last Post ceremony. It was surprising to have his name so accessible. It was a very moving experience.
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Parker
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pte. Walter Parker's name is include at the top of this memorial plaque dedicated to members of the Toronto Fire Department who served in WWI. This plaque was placed by the Toronto Fire Fighters' Association and is located in the front entrance of Toronto's old City Hall, Queen Street.
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The Firefighter's WWI memorial plaque may be viewed in the lobby of Toronto's old City Hall, Queen Street. The plaque is just behind the doors that may be seen in this photo behind Toronto's WWI Cenotaph.
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Pte. Parker's original attestation - signed when he enlisted in the war. This confirms his occupation as a fireman.
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This photo of Walter Parker's name (third from bottom on right) at Menin Gate was taken during in August 2010 during our family's visit to Ypres. My eyes fell upon this section of the Gate during the Last Post ceremony. It was surprising to have his name so accessible. It was a very moving experience.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 145 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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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."
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