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Digital gallery of Private Alfred Lightwood
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Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
This War Memorial stands on the grounds of St. James Cathedral in Toronto. The Cathedral is located on the corner of King & Church Streets, west of Yonge Street. This view shows Church Street just behind the Gothic Revival style Memorial. The base is inscribed with the names of the men from the Cathedral's Roll of Honour on 3 panels, and the 4th panel is a tribute to the men.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Alfred Lightwood is remembered on this panel at the base of the St. James War Memorial.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Main dedication on the St. James War Memorial.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
This picture, one of the only ones we have of Alf, was taken in 1901 shortly after the Lightwood family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada from England. Front row, l to r: Lillian, Florence, Annie Rosa. Back row, l to r: George, Henrietta, Alfred (age 7), Frank. Alf's father Francis Lightwood died in 1896.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
This stone, remembering Alfred Lightwood and his parents Annie Rosa Williams and Francis Lightwood, is located in the Lightwood plot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. It was laid in 1954, upon the death of Annie Rosa, by daughters Florence and Henrietta.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
The Lightwood family plot (Lot 29, Section 131) at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. The stone commemorating Alfred is in the foreground, closest to the left, of the picture.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Postcard image taken of Private Alfred Lightwood at Christmas 1914 at Salisbury Camp, England. Recently found stuffed between the pages of a family collection of old books.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Back of the Christmas 1914 postcard showing Private Alfred Lightwood.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Lightwood
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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This War Memorial stands on the grounds of St. James Cathedral in Toronto. The Cathedral is located on the corner of King & Church Streets, west of Yonge Street. This view shows Church Street just behind the Gothic Revival style Memorial. The base is inscribed with the names of the men from the Cathedral's Roll of Honour on 3 panels, and the 4th panel is a tribute to the men.
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Alfred Lightwood is remembered on this panel at the base of the St. James War Memorial.
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Main dedication on the St. James War Memorial.
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This picture, one of the only ones we have of Alf, was taken in 1901 shortly after the Lightwood family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada from England. Front row, l to r: Lillian, Florence, Annie Rosa. Back row, l to r: George, Henrietta, Alfred (age 7), Frank. Alf's father Francis Lightwood died in 1896.
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This stone, remembering Alfred Lightwood and his parents Annie Rosa Williams and Francis Lightwood, is located in the Lightwood plot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. It was laid in 1954, upon the death of Annie Rosa, by daughters Florence and Henrietta.
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The Lightwood family plot (Lot 29, Section 131) at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. The stone commemorating Alfred is in the foreground, closest to the left, of the picture.
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Postcard image taken of Private Alfred Lightwood at Christmas 1914 at Salisbury Camp, England. Recently found stuffed between the pages of a family collection of old books.
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Back of the Christmas 1914 postcard showing Private Alfred Lightwood.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 24 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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