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Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Death:
August 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C. 15.
Additional information
Son of John S. and Anna B. McGiffin, of Toronto. Previously wounded at Courcelette in 1916
Digital gallery of Captain George Allan McGiffin
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Monument
The McGiffin family monument at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto includes a dedication to Captain George Allan McGiffin. -
Inscription
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping (2)
One of many tributes to Captain George Allan McGiffin. McGiffin had worked at the Toronto Star. -
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St Thomas (Anglican) Church
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death. -
War Memorial Window
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry. -
Memorial
A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Captain George Allan McGiffin. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario. -
Photo of George McGiffen
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of George McGiffen
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. -
Roll of Honour
Dufferin School, Toronto, Ontario. A memorial plaque listing 48 former students who died during the first World War was dedicated at Dufferin School on January 20th, 1928. The memorial was unveiled by Thomas J. Bragg, President Dufferin School Old Boys, and dedicated by Rev. E. A. Henry, D.D., Chaplain Dufferin School Old Boys. The original 1876 school building faced Berkeley Street. It was torn down in 1925 and replaced with a structure on Parliament Street, and renamed as Lord Dufferin School. In honoured memory of the boys of Dufferin School. -
Oakville Remembers
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Oakville Remembers Biography
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Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)
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Photo of George McGiffen
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Photo of George McGiffin
Enrolled with the 37th Bn. CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of GEORGE ALLAN MCGIFFIN
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Grave Marker
Sun Quarry Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Sun Quarry Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Sun Quarry Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
G. Allan McGiffin's name appears on this memorial plaque for those that died in WW1, along with 9 other school mates from Oakville High School, in Oakville Ontario. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
Digital gallery of
Captain George Allan McGiffin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 458 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.
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