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Son of Robert J. and Ella M. Taylor Johnston, of 292, High Park Avenue, Toronto.
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
1914 - 1918 Memorial Plaque for High Park Methodist Church, 260 High Park
Ave., Toronto, Ontario. The Memorial Plaque was unveiled in 1924 by
Nursing Sister Pat Tuckett, and a Memorial Organ was presented by the
Women's Association. Those who died (38 names) are listed on the centre
panel with the names of those who served on the side panels. The first
services at this location were held in October 1908. The church became
High Park Avenue United Church in 1925, and High Park-Alhambra in 1970.
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Walter Reginald Johnston
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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1914 - 1918 Memorial Plaque for High Park Methodist Church, 260 High Park Ave., Toronto, Ontario. The Memorial Plaque was unveiled in 1924 by Nursing Sister Pat Tuckett, and a Memorial Organ was presented by the Women's Association. Those who died (38 names) are listed on the centre panel with the names of those who served on the side panels. The first services at this location were held in October 1908. The church became High Park Avenue United Church in 1925, and High Park-Alhambra in 1970.
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Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 110 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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