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Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
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Inscription
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Stone of Remembrance
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Soldiers' Tower Memorial
The Soldiers’ Tower – The Soldiers’ Tower was built by the University of Toronto Alumni Association in 1924 as a memorial to the Great War of 1914-1918. The names of those who died in that conflict are carved on the Memorial Screen at photo left. After the Second World War, more names were carved in the Memorial Arch at the Tower’s base. In total, almost 1200 names are inscribed. A Memorial Room inside the Tower contains mementoes and artifacts, and a 51-bell carillon serves as the audio element of the living memorial to the alumni, students, faculty and staff who died in the World Wars. The Soldiers’ Tower is the site of an annual Service of Remembrance. Photo: Kathy Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Forestry WWII Plaque
This plaque, part of a multi-component display to the men from Forestry who died in the First and Second World Wars, is located at the Earth Sciences Centre, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Arch West
The names of those who died in the Second World War were added to the archway beneath the Soldiers’ Tower in 1949. Photo: courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto. -
Forestry WWII Photo Display
This framed display of photos, part of a multi-component display to the men from Forestry who died in the First and Second World Wars, is located at the Earth Sciences Centre, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto. The photo of “F/O R. H. WILSON, R.C.A.F. Class ‘41” is third from the left. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Room
Soldiers’ Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Robert Hipwell Wilson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Robert Hipwell Wilson
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Photo of Robert Hipwell Wilson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Robert Hipwell Wilson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
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Document
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Letter
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Letter
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Death Certificate
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Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Robert Hipwell Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 227 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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