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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons; husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Captain John Hannaford Symons
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Inscription
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial inscription. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Press Clipping
This interview with Corp. Charles Hockley, 4th C.M.R., discusses the circumstances surrounding the death of Captain John Hannaford Symons. -
Royal Canadian Yacht Club Memorial
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club World War One Memorial, Toronto, Ontario. Images of the 1926 unveiling ceremony and the names listed on the side panels of the sun dial memorial. This unveiling and the photographs were presented in a special edition booklet entitled "In Memoriam 1914-1918". -
War Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 795 Captain John Hannaford Symons (RMC 1911) was the son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons. He was the husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto. He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.). He died 2 Jun 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 795 Captain John Hannaford Symons (RMC 1911) was the son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons. He was the husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto. He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.). He died 2 Jun 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 795 Captain John Hannaford Symons (RMC 1911) was the son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons. He was the husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto. He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.). He died 2 Jun 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. -
Menin Gate Memorial
795 Captain John Hannaford Symons (RMC 1911) was the son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons. He was the husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto. He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.). He died 2 Jun 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. -
Badge
795 Captain John Hannaford Symons (RMC 1911) was the son of William Linbury Symons and Georgia Lutz Symons. He was the husband of E. Marion Douglas Symons, of 64, South Drive, Toronto. He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.). He died 2 Jun 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. -
Memorial Arch
Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston -
Memorial Stair
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston -
Memorial Stained Glass
Memorial window, Royal Military College, Kingston -
Photo of John Hannaford Symons
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Inscription
Captain John Hannaford Symons, Panel 30, Menin Gate -
Sword
The sword that belonged to Captain John Hannaford Symons who was a member of the 4th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
Digital gallery of
Captain John Hannaford Symons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 170 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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