Aura Lee Club WWI plaque

Toronto, Ontario
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The Aura Lee Club was founded in 1887. The competitive athletics part of the club began about 1903. In 1925, the property was turned over to the University of Toronto for use by its preparatory school (UTS). Hockey, canoeing, other sports and social events evoke the lighter side of a Toronto club’s life, but this memorial shows the darker side—naming 63 comrades who went from the playing fields to the battlefields and didn’t come back.

Names on a bronze plaque with dates (1914-1918) indicate a tribute to those members of the Aura Lee Club who died in the Great War.

Inscription

1914-1918 / Our comrades / Who / Sixty-three in all / "Played the game" / Even unto death / their lives they risked /and gave very soul /of life to save /and by their own great valour /and the grace of God they won

Gordon Applegath Charles McHenry

J. Russell Aikins Roy F. McMurtry

E. Lambert Bach Sidney McWhinney

Roy Bailey George H. Morang

Beverley Ball William Munro

Quintin W. Bannister Bertram T. Nevitt

E.O. Bath G. Courtland Noxon

Fred J. Blakey Donald Osborne

Edward B. Booth Paul Pettit

H. Stewart Boulter John H. Pipon

Wilfred Britnell John A. Proctor

Norman A. Brown William Proudfoot

J.P. Cavers Gaynor Reid

Duncan Chisholm George Renfrew

Walter W. Conyers Roy R. Riggs

Melville Crawford Francis Rolph

Beverley Crowther John E. Ryerson

Lindsay Drummond Alex W. Scott

Douglas Q. Ellis J. Murray Skeaff

George Evans Dr. Harry R. Smith

Thomas Freebairn Langley W. Smith

Eric Clarence Gardner W. Burton Tait

Percival Gibson W. Gordon Tait

Carl Heebner Geoffrey B. Taylor

Fred J. Hore Jack Topp

Francis C. Howard E.C. VanEeghan

Fred Hutty N. Eden Walker

Ralph Jones Frank Waltho

Herbert N. Klotz Arthur C. Williams

Basil R. Lepper Lynn Wright

C. Gordon Likens William B. Yuille

Richard L. Lyall

 

 

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Aura Lee Club WWI plaque

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