South House First World War Plaque
South House First World War Plaque
Photo credit: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University Advancement, University of Toronto.
Municipality/Province: Toronto, ON
Memorial number: 35091-017
Type: Plaque - bronze
Address: 1 Devonshire Place
Location: Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto (Trinity College location)
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.6646462 Long: -79.3970116
Submitted by: Jean Griffin Elliott. Soldiers’ Tower Committee. Kathy Parks, University of Toronto.
This plaque is one of numerous memorials erected on the University of Toronto campus in the aftermath of the Great War (later called the First World War). It commemorates the men of South House who gave their lives in that conflict. The manufacturer’s stamp in fine lettering on the bottom rim reads: CANADIAN WM. A. ROGERS LIMITED SOLID BRONZE. The place where the plaque hangs was, at that time, an exterior wall of South House.
South House was a residence for men of various University of Toronto faculties. Along with neighbouring North House and East House, the buildings were originally called the Devonshire residences. During the First World War, the buildings were utilized by the Royal Flying Corps. During the Second World War, the buildings were used as an evacuation centre for children from England, and then as a training centre for the air force. In the mid-1950’s, a new level of governance came into being to oversee the three residences and the name of “Devonshire House” was officially adopted.
The residences were closed in 1997, and as part of an architectural renovation completed in 2000, the buildings were brought together under one roof into a new complex for the Munk Centre for International Studies, subsequently named the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. The plaque, formerly exterior, is now an interior plaque.
Professor Edward Joseph Kylie, the first person listed on the plaque, is also commemorated in a stained glass window at Hart House.
Inscription found on memorial
SOUTH HOUSE
[University of Toronto crest]
VELUT ARBOR ÆVO
IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS HOUSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR, 1914-1918.
- HUBERT GORDON ALLAN
- JAMES GORDON BOLE
- JEFFREY HARPER BULL
- JAMES POMEROY CAVERS
- WILLIAM WILLIS CODE
- J. EMERSON HILL
- A. ALLISON HORTON
- HUGH D. LIVINGSTON
- JOHN FREELE MEEK
- ARTHUR EDWARD MUIR
- HARRY REID NICHOLSON
- FRED. NEWTON READ
- DAVID ALEX. ROBINSON
- E. FRANCIS SANDERS
- WM. FRANCIS TWOHEY
- GERALD EDWIN WELLS
- CHESTER M. WILLEY
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