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Son of Bertha McAllum (formerly Turquand), of 39, Spadina Rd., Toronto, and the late Bernard Damer Turquand.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Aubrey Turquand entered Appleby College in 1911. He was the Head Prefect in 1914. He was killed at Ypres in 1916. In 2002 a delegation from the College's Cadet Corps visited the site of his memorial. In the College Chapel a plaque commemorates Aubrey, reading in part, "And who before the age of 20 fulfilled to the uttermost the duties of a Canadian and a man."
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Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Turquand's name on the Menin Gate
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
A delegation from his school's cadet Corps at the Menin Gate, August 2002. Turquand's name is on the wall above them.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Aubrey Turquand shown in his Appleby School (sic) uniform. He was the head prefect in 1914. From the Appleby College archives
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Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
From the Toronto Star for 23 October 1916, page 1.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
This stained glass window is in Holy Trinity Anglican Church, which was founded in 1830. The church was originally located on Yonge Street in Thornhill Ontario. It is now found at Jane and Brook Street, having moved there in 1950. The window was donated in memory of Aubrey De V. A. Turquand
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
Aubrey Turquand's step father, George McAllum, also served in the Great War. He was killed and posted as missing. His memorial is on the Menin Gate, just around the corner from his step son Aubrey. Therefore Aubrey's mother, Bertha, lost her husband and only son in the Great War.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand
From the Toronto Telegram June 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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Aubrey Turquand entered Appleby College in 1911. He was the Head Prefect in 1914. He was killed at Ypres in 1916. In 2002 a delegation from the College's Cadet Corps visited the site of his memorial. In the College Chapel a plaque commemorates Aubrey, reading in part, "And who before the age of 20 fulfilled to the uttermost the duties of a Canadian and a man."
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Turquand's name on the Menin Gate
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A delegation from his school's cadet Corps at the Menin Gate, August 2002. Turquand's name is on the wall above them.
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Aubrey Turquand shown in his Appleby School (sic) uniform. He was the head prefect in 1914. From the Appleby College archives
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From the Toronto Star for 23 October 1916, page 1.
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This stained glass window is in Holy Trinity Anglican Church, which was founded in 1830. The church was originally located on Yonge Street in Thornhill Ontario. It is now found at Jane and Brook Street, having moved there in 1950. The window was donated in memory of Aubrey De V. A. Turquand
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Aubrey Turquand's step father, George McAllum, also served in the Great War. He was killed and posted as missing. His memorial is on the Menin Gate, just around the corner from his step son Aubrey. Therefore Aubrey's mother, Bertha, lost her husband and only son in the Great War.
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 175 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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