Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Memorial – St. Paul's Church in Toronto has more than 30 separate memorials from the First World War, including windows, chancel screens, tablets, panels, and artifacts. In loving memory of Arnold A Kippen, Lieutenant and Acting Captain, who enlisted October 1914 with the 19th Battalion C.E.F. and was afterwards transferred to the 75th Battalion. He was severely wounded near Vimy Ridge March 1st 1917 and at Arleus April 1918. He was killed in action September 2 1918 at the taking of the Drocourt-Queant Line France. Age 24 years. He took the only way and followed it to a glorious end.

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Arnold Aglen Kippen

Newspaper Article

News Paper Clipping – Article

Roll of Honour – Lt. Arnold A. Kippen's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses.

Name on the Roll of Honour – Detail of Lt. Arnold A. Kippen's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour.

World War I Memorial tablet – 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: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content."

Inscription – World War One memorial tablet set in the chancel screen at St. Paul's (Anglican), Toronto, Ontario. The screen is in three sections, with the two outside sections displaying the tablets. The chancel screen includes statues of twelve historic figures including Admiral Earl Beatty, King George V, Earl Kitchener, Marshal Foch, Earl Haig, and Lord Byng of Vimy. The screen was the work of Messrs. J. Wippell & Co., of Exeter, England. The great chancel war memorial windows are located above. These are inscribed: "To the Greater Glory of God and in Everlasting Remembrance of the Men of St. Paul's Parish who gave their lives in Defence of Justice, Liberty and Truth, A.D. 1914-1919." They were unveiled in 1921 by the Governor-General of Canada, Baron Byng of Vimy. Another World War One memorial window in honour of the men named on the tablets is located on the east wall of the Nave. The panels include fragments of glass from 70 buildings in the war zones. It was unveiled by Baron Byng of Vimy in 1922. Both windows were manufactured by Robert McCausland Ltd. of Toronto.