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Rank Private
Service # 270478
Unit # 215th battalion
Resident Brantford
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Private Halliday served three years with the volunteers.

He trained one year in Canada with the 215th battalion when he proceeded overseas, training at Witley Camp, thence to France transferring to the 125th battalion.

He received slight wounds in Aug. 1918, returning to his unit in three weeks time.

He was reported Missing and later reported killed in action Sept. 30. 1918.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cenotaph Chatham and Kent County Cenotaph - Chatham
Sources Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919), Commonwealth War Grave Commission
Supplemental Information Wife: Mrs. G. M. Halliday, Dresden Children: Robert George, Aden LaRue, Elsie May, Cephas John
Height 5'10"
Eye Colour brown
Age 31
Complexion dark
Hair dark brown
Race white
Religion Salvationist
Last Place of Employment Cockshutt Plow Company, Brantford, Ontario
Average Earnings 2.50/day
Marital Status married
When Enlisted June 25 1916
Where Enlisted Brantford, Ontario
Allowance from Patriotic Fund 23.50/mth

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