Tuesday 20 April 2010

8563 Pte George Haley, 1st Bn, East Surrey Regt

8563 Private George Haley of the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on the 20th April 1915. He was born in Mile End, east London, and enlisted in London as an eighteen-year-old on the 28th June 1905. He has no known gave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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