Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Montage – The Church of the Redeemer (Anglican), Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario. Two World War One memorial plaques are located in the west transept next to War Memorial stained glass windows (1920).

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Rosswell Burgess – 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.

Newspaper Clipping – From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Honour Roll – From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.

The Soldiers' Tower – The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of Rosswell Morris Burgess. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks.

Memorial – Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.

Gravemarker

Detail of Grave Marker