Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Newspaper Clipping

Monument – The McGiffin family monument at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto includes a dedication to Captain George Allan McGiffin.

Inscription

Honour Roll – From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.

Newspaper Clipping – Photograph

Newspaper Clipping (2) – One of many tributes to Captain George Allan McGiffin. McGiffin had worked at the Toronto Star.

Newspaper Clipping (3) – Article

Newspaper Clipping (4) – Article

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

Oakville Remembers Biography

Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)

Photo of George McGiffen

Photo of George McGiffin – Enrolled with the 37th Bn. CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me