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Son of Charles Hurlbut Riggs and Louisa Elizabeth Riggs.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
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.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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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.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Aire is an old fortified town on the north-eastern boundary of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It lies in the valley of the Lys, on the road, and the canal, between St. Omer and Bethune. It is about 14 kilometres south-south-east of St. Omer.
The AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is 0.75 kilometres north of the town, on the road to St. Omer and the 4 British plots are on the east side.
The entrance from the Communal Cemetery is by a porch on the west side. A paved walk leads between the British graves to the War Stone, which is on the east side, backed by a brick and stone screen with semicircular stone niches at either end. The Cross stands at the entrance and at the south end is a French Memorial.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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