University of Toronto
Canada
The Roll of Service for the University of Toronto was a booklet published by the University of Toronto Press.
This booklet can now be seen on the Internet Archive.
The University of Toronto Roll of Service lists 613 past members of the University to have lost their lives in the First World War, as per the above table. One Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment was a a former student of the University
22nd Lieutenant Henry Lawrence
5th Battalion attached to 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late James and Adeline Lawrence, of 71, Manor Rd., Scarborough. Killed 17 January 1917. Aged 26.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3A & 3D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
Although Scarborough, above, is a district in Toronto, Henry Lawrence WAS born in the North Yorkshire Scarborough. The following notes are from Robert Coulson‘s Biographies of Officers in The Yorkshire Regiment;-
“Henry Lawrence was born in Scarborough and was educated at All Saints School and the Municipal School in the town.
He then went to Canada and at the onset of war joined Princess Patricia‘s Canadian Light Infantry serving in France from June 1915.
He then returned to England and gained his commission joining the 6th Battalion after their return from Gallipoli and Egypt.
He joined up with the battalion at Beaumetz in October of 1916.
The battalion stayed in the Somme sector through Christmas of 1916 and 2nd Lt Henry Lawrence was killed in action during a night patrol close to Beaucourt on January 17th 1917.”
Further details of his career can be read in the extract from the University of Toronto Roll of Service, below.
