Memorial Room

Originally called the Muniment Room, the Memorial Room is a small museum on the second floor of the Soldiers’ Tower.

The Memorial Room includes:

- Large portraits of Major Sir Frederick Banting, Surgeon-Captain Best, Major Thain MacDowell, VC (Vimy), Major Frederick Tilston, VC., Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, and Nursing Sister Harriet Meiklejohn, RRC.

- Flags of Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, Canada, Great Britain, and United Nations.

- Two Books of Remembrance 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945.

- Decorations and medals from Waterloo and the Fenian Raids to peacekeeping.

- Military books and memorabilia, a memorial chalice and chaplain’s stole.

- Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae’s poem "In Flanders’ fields".

- Memorial Window.

Dedications to the carillon bells are inscribed on the stone walls of the Memorial Room. The carillon itself is located in a higher level of the building.

THIS CARILLON THE GIFT OF THE GRADUATES WAS DEDICATED ON THE OCCASION
OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OCTOBER SIXTH 1927
IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

I THE GIFT OF H. MAURICE CODY, BA'20, IN MEMORY OF THE OLD BOYS OF UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS

II TO HONOUR THE MEMORY OF LIEUT. GORDON S.M. GAULD, MC, RFA AND RFC, BA'15 UC, KILLED WHILE FLYING MARCH 25, 1918.

III CLASS OF 1882 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

IV IN MEMORY OF CAPT. HOWARD KILBOURNE HARRIS, MC, ESSEX REGIMENT, KILLED IN ACTION BETWEEN MOURCHIES AND PERONNE, FEBRUARY 22, 1918

V IN MEMORY OF MEMBERS OF THE 147th (GREY) BATTALION, C.E.F.

VI DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF COL. W.R. LANG, VD, BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CONTINGENT, COTC

VII IN MEMORY OF MAJ. GORDON H. SOUTHAM, BA'07 UC, KILLED IN ACTION, OCT. 15 1916 AT COURCELETTE

VIII LT. JAMES ERNEST ROBERTSON, BA, LL.B, 27th CAN.BN., KILLED IN ACTION, MARCH 9, 1916 "VIRTUTIS GLORIA MERCES"

IX PRESENTED BY W.H. BALLARD, MA, LL.D, UC 1871, IN MEMORY OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY COMPANY K (NO.9) QUEEN'S OWN RIFLES

X MONTREAL BRANCH, ALUMNI FEDERATION

XI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

XII UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY

XIII A TRIBUTE FROM THE OFFICERS OF NO.4 CANADIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES WHO FELL

XIV IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF DELTA KAPPA EPSILON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

XV ALPHA DELTA PHI

XVI DELTA UPSILON

XVII IN MEMORY OF LT. EVAN RYRIE, UC'16 "I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE AND THAT WHICH I HAVE DONE MAY HE WITHIN HIMSELF MAKE PURE"

XVIII THE GIFT OF CANADIAN ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CORPS WHO FELL IN DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE

XIX FIFTY-ONE MEN OF TRINITY ΜΕΤ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ [Editor’s note: (Greek, Met' agona Stephanos, "After the struggle, the crown") is a Trinity College traditional motto.]

XX FROM THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, TORONTO, AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE FELLOWS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

XXI "EXTOL, YE BELL, THE VIRTUE OF OUR VALOROUS MEN." ALUMNI - FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

XXII THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND FRIENDS OF VICTORIA COLLEGE

XXIII UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

XXIV-XLII THE GIFT OF ERIC PHILLIPS, C.B.E. D.S.O. M.C. B.A.SC. LL.D.

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
UNIVERSITY WHO FELL IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR
JUNE 5. 1953 

[brass plaque/plaque]
THE SOLDIERS’ TOWER CARILLON WAS COMPLETED
BY THE ADDITION OF TWENTY-EIGHT NEW BELLS
AND REDEDICATED ON 7 MAY 1976.