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Digital gallery of Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
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Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
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Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal
Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World
War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained
glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval
knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in
a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually
inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes
the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of
death.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas
Church Baptistry.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Lt. Aysceau Swinnerton. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
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 Aysceau Swinnerton
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan).
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
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)
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
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St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death.
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One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry.
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A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Lt. Aysceau Swinnerton. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario.
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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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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan).
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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 March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 335 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.
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