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Military service
Service number:
189993
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
January 27, 1883
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
December 15, 1917
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
November 5, 1918
Marchipont, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 24.
Additional information
Son of Henry Haystaff and Clara Clark, of Tring, Hertfordshire, England. He stated being born in 1885 when he enlisted.
He first volunteered in 1916, but was released after three months of service due to varicose veins on the legs. Reenlisted at the end of 1917, he arrived in France eight months later. On 6 September 1918, he was part of a group Anglophones soldiers transferred by error to the 22nd Battalion, and was he was retransferred soon after to the 87th Battalion, an Anglophone unit.
Digital gallery of Private Sydney Haystaff
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Gravemarker
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Valenciennes (St. Roch) Community Cemetery
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Circumstances of death registers
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Grave marker
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Valenciennes' Entrance
Digital gallery of
Private Sydney Haystaff
Digital gallery of
Private Sydney Haystaff
Digital gallery of
Private Sydney Haystaff
Digital gallery of
Private Sydney Haystaff
Digital gallery of
Private Sydney Haystaff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 426 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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