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Military service
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Death:
March 1, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
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 Lt. Aysceau Swinnerton. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario. -
Photo of Aysceau Swinnerton
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. -
War Memorial
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan). -
Inscription
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Aysceau Swinnerton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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