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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
37th Training Reserve Sqdn.
Death:
July 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
D. 364.
Additional information
Son of Jacob M. and Augusta Haist, of Ridgeville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Orville Haist
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Orville Dwight Haist
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of Orville Dwight Haist
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "2nd Lt. O. D. Haist R.F.C." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Orville Dwight Haist
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 577 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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