The Memorial
The Honour Roll
As early as January 1916, the Law
Society began to compile a list of lawyers and law students
who had enlisted to serve in the First World War. Legal Education Committee
Chairman E. Douglas Armour sought a list of members on active service
from the Adjutant-General of Canadian Militia, who sent the Law Society
a 22-page list of names. Someone, possibly Secretary Edwin Bell, updated and annotated the list as new information surfaced,
probably using newspaper casualty lists. New lists were drawn up periodically
and they too were kept up-to-date with handwritten notations, one having
red asterisks identifying the wounded. In November 1918 -- one week before
the war ended -- the Ontario
Bar Association produced and circulated
a draft "Roll of Honour" and list of enlisted members, a copy of which
the Law
Society Secretary kept in his office.
The Memorial Roll of Honour
