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A stained glass window at the Church of St. Aidan was dedicated to parishioner Lieutenant Ernest Ford Crossland who had served in the Royal Air Force during the First World War.

Ernest was born in Toronto, Ontario on 21 July 1895, to Ernest F. Crossland, vice-president of Steele-Briggs Seed Co., and Margaret G. Crossland. He was working as a bank clerk at the Bank of Hamilton when war broke out in August of 1914; on the 21st of that month, he joined The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada militia before being commissioned as a lieutenant in the 3rd, then later the 12th, Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force. After serving 17 months on the Western Front, he was sent home to command the 208th Battalion before being selected to train with the Royal Air Force in Oxford, England. In 1918, Crossland returned home to Toronto, Ontario, where he died of pneumonia at his parent’s home on October 20.

On 23 April 1922 at Church of St. Aidan, a bronze plaque was unveiled on the east wall of the nave dedicated to the parishioners of the congregation who lost their lives in the First World War.

Memorial Hall was being planned since the closing months of the First World War. Members of the congregation raised the $65,000 necessary to commission architect A.J. Stringer to build it. On 10 August 1922, the first cornerstone was laid by Assistant Bishop of Toronto, Reverend William Day Reeve, in a ceremony attended by hundreds. The ceremonial laying of the first cornerstone was also a commemoration to pay tribute to members of the St. Aidan’s congregation who had fought and died in the First World War.

The hall was opened on 6 April 1923 in a ceremony conducted by Bishop of Toronto James Fielding Sweeny, and was attended by 1,000 people. In May of 2019, the hall was sold.

On 5 November 1922 a plaque at Holy Trinity church was dedicated in honour of Private Bert Reginald Perry. He was a member of the choir before he lost his life in the First World War and the plaque was placed on the ledge of the seat that Bert used when in the choir. He was born on 2 February 1885 in Ironbridge, Shropshire, England, the son of Samuel Perry. After moving to Toronto, Ontario, Bert was a member of the Queen’s Own Rifles before he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 15 July 1915. He served with the 74th Battalion and was later transferred to the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. While at the Somme on 15 September 1916, he was reported to have been killed in action. 

On 5 November 1922, a bronze tablet, placed under the First World War Window, was unveiled on the north wall of the Church of the Holy Trinity. It was dedicated to the 32 parishioners of the congregation who lost their lives in the First World War by Bishop William Day Reeve and Canon W. L. Baynes-Reed. 

On April 7, 1918, three Toronto Vimy Ridge heroes plaques were unveiled in three different Toronto Anglican churches. Lieutenant Kappele's plaque is at St. Paul's Anglican Church and Lieutenant Gregory's plaque is at All Saints Anglican Church. The Captain Harry Stewart Boulter Plaque was unveiled in the Church of the Redeemer by Major George N. Molesworth of the 124^th Battalion. The ceremony, conducted by Reverend C.J. James, was attended by members of the Mississauga Horse and members of the congregation.

Harry was born on 18 November 1892 to Harry C. and Effie Boulter in Toronto, Ontario. A lieutenant with the 9th Mississauga Horse, he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at this rank on 4 December 1915. He went overseas with the 124^th Battalion and was promoted to captain on 2 January 1917. On 4 April 1917, while overseeing preparations for the Vimy Ridge offensive, Boulter was struck through the heart by a piece of shrapnel and killed instantly. He was buried in Villers Station Cemetery, France, with full military honours.

At Grace Church on-the-hill a stained glass window was dedicated in 1921 in honour of brothers Lieutenant Walter King Pearce and Lieutenant Gordon Mackenzie Pearce, both lost their lives in the First World War. It was made by Robert McCausland Limited and the theme of this three-light window is “Suffer the Little Children”, based on Mark 10:13-16. It shows Jesus blessing the children, with the caption. “He took them in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.” 

The brothers were born to William K. and Emma Pearce of Toronto, Ontario. Walter was born on 29 July 1891 and Gordon on 30 September 1896. William, like his father, was a banker at the Dominion Bank in Toronto; he was also a member of the 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers militia when enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 8 July 1915. In Europe he became a lieutenant in the Canadian Mounted Rifles; on 15 September 1916 was killed in action at the Somme.

Gordon was a student at the University of Toronto and a member of the Governor General’s Body Guard militia when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 8 December 1915. He became a lieutenant in the 124th Battalion; on 26 April 1917 he was killed by an exploding shell at Arras.

A tablet at Grace Church on-the-Hill was dedicated to the memory of Second-Lieutenant William Cecil Hutson who was killed in the First World War. Hutson was born in 1897 to Harry and Annie Hutson of Toronto, Ontario. He attended the Upper Canada College, then the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario from which he was gazetted into the 51st Brigade, of the British Royal Field Artillery. He was killed on 21 March at Second Picardy, during the Spring Offensive.

A tablet at Grace Church on-the-Hill was dedicated to the memory of Captain John Scatcherd Laycock who was killed in the First World War. Laycock was born in Buffalo, New York on 6 December 879, son of Hartley and Annie Laycock; the family later moved to Toronto, Ontario. Laycock was a sales manager and a member of the 48th Highlanders militia when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 28 August 1915. He became a captain in the 15th Battalion. At the Somme on 24 September 1916, he received a gunshot wound to the back from which he recovered. However, on 11 June 1917, while attending to a wounded man of the 10th Battalion at Messines, he was struck in the head by shrapnel from an exploding shell, which killed him instantly.

A stained glass window at Grace Church on-the-Hill was dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant John Anthony Ninian Ormsby, who was killed in the First World War. It was designed by N.T. Lyon Company. The inspiration for the window comes from Samuel I, chapter 3. 

Ormsby was born on 15 December 1894, in Danville, Quebec to John and Susie Ormsby and grew up in Forest Hill, Toronto, Ontario. He was a student at the Upper Canada College and a member of the 10th Royal Grenadiers when he received a commission to serve as a lieutenant with the Eaton’s Machine Gun Battery on 3 February 1915. He became a flight-lieutenant with the Royal Flying Corps on 20 June 1916. He was reported missing while flying reconnaissance behind enemy lines at the Somme on 2 August 1916, later presumed dead.