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In memory of:

Sergeant William Emsley Raley

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Military service

Service number: 2100
Age: 23
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Engineers
Division: 7th Field Coy.
Birth: April 25, 1893
Death: October 11, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. B. 20.
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Son of Charles and Lucy Sigsworth Raley, of Barnsley, Yorks, England. B.A. Sc. of Toronto University.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 152 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

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