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Son of Thomas H. Kelly.
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Private Thomas Kelly
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
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
Private Thomas Kelly
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
Private Thomas Kelly
Dufferin School, Toronto, Ontario. A memorial plaque listing 48 former students who died during the first World War was dedicated at Dufferin School on January 20th, 1928. The memorial was unveiled by Thomas J. Bragg, President Dufferin School Old Boys, and dedicated by Rev. E. A. Henry, D.D., Chaplain Dufferin School Old Boys. The original 1876 school building faced Berkeley Street. It was torn down in 1925 and replaced with a structure on Parliament Street, and renamed as Lord Dufferin School. In honoured memory of the boys of Dufferin School.
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Private Thomas Kelly
In honoured memory.
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Private Thomas Kelly
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Funds were raised by the Alumni Federation, now called the University of Toronto Alumni Association. The name of "Pte T. E. KELLY 4th Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations.
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Private Thomas Kelly
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed and dedicated in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for specific bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room, and several of the dedications pertain to University College. Here we see the dedication for bell XXIII: "University College Alumni Assocation."
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed and dedicated in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for specific bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room, and several of the dedications pertain to University College. Here we see the dedication for bell XI: "University College Alumnae Assocation."
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Private Thomas Kelly
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Kelly
From the Toronto Telegram September 1914. 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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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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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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Dufferin School, Toronto, Ontario. A memorial plaque listing 48 former students who died during the first World War was dedicated at Dufferin School on January 20th, 1928. The memorial was unveiled by Thomas J. Bragg, President Dufferin School Old Boys, and dedicated by Rev. E. A. Henry, D.D., Chaplain Dufferin School Old Boys. The original 1876 school building faced Berkeley Street. It was torn down in 1925 and replaced with a structure on Parliament Street, and renamed as Lord Dufferin School. In honoured memory of the boys of Dufferin School.
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In honoured memory.
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Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Funds were raised by the Alumni Federation, now called the University of Toronto Alumni Association. The name of "Pte T. E. KELLY 4th Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations.
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Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed and dedicated in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for specific bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room, and several of the dedications pertain to University College. Here we see the dedication for bell XXIII: "University College Alumni Assocation."
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Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed and dedicated in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for specific bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room, and several of the dedications pertain to University College. Here we see the dedication for bell XI: "University College Alumnae Assocation."
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 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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