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Digital gallery of Private Abel Haliday
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This marble stele memorial at Old United Church cemetery, Britannia (Random Point), NL was erected by the Halliday family in memory of Abel Halliday who was killed in France on 14 April 1917. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [front/devant] ABEL HALLIDAY AGED 24 YEARS SERVED WITH THE N.F. REG. IN FRANCE. REPORTED MISSING APRIL 14. 1917 HE SAW A NATION IN HER NEED HE HEARD THE CAUSE OF HONOUR PLEAD HE HEARD THE CALL, HE GAVE THE HEED AND NOW HE SLEEPS IN FLANDERS LET HIM SLEEP, CALMLY SLEEP, TILL THE CALL OF THE ROLL ON HIGH HALLIDAY http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2097
Digital gallery of
Private Abel Haliday
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 51 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
St. Laurent-Blangy is a village adjoining the north-east side of Arras. Leave St Laurent-Blangy on the D919 towards Bailleul-sire-Berthoult for about 2.5 kilometres. BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of the village on the south side (right) of the road.
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