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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
19th Sqdn.
Birth:
April 13, 1889
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 11.
Additional information
Son of Charles Hurlbut Riggs and Louisa Elizabeth Riggs.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
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. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Roy Robertson Riggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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