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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

John Redmond Meredith

In memory of:

Major John Redmond Meredith

November 25, 1916

Military Service


Age:

38

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Division:

Gen. List, 95th Bn.

Additional Information


Son of Lady Mary Meredith, of Toronto, Ontario., and Hon. Chief Justice Sir William Ralph Meredith; husband of Miriam Isadore Meredith, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 134 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

TORONTO (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY
Ontario, Canada

Grave Reference:

Block. A. Plot C. 53. South.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Photo of JOHN REDMOND MEREDITH– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Memorial– The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
  • Memorial– The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
  • Newspaper clipping– In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of John Redmond Meredith– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Photo of John Redmond Meredith– From The War Book of Upper Canada College, edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923.  This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War.
  • Photo of John Redmond Meredith– Photograph from The Toronto Star, November 27, 1916.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping 3– Funeral Arrangements
  • Newspaper Clipping 2
  • Newspaper Clipping 4– Article in the Toronto Star dated December 13th, 1916 regarding Major Meredith's funeral.
  • Honour Roll– "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
  • Memorial Plaque– Roll of Honour is located in the Middlesex Memorial Tower, University College.
University of Western Ontario,  London Ontario. 
Courtesy of University of Western Ontario Gazette
  • Memorial Tablet– Major John Redmond Meredith is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during  the First World War.  Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario.
  • Osgoode Hall War Memorial
  • Monument– Photo courtesy of Padre Craig Cameron, Queen's Own Rifles, 2004.

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