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Military service
Service number:
748543
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
July 25, 1897
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William M. and Grace Goold Haselton, of Beebe, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Cecil Haselton
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The Stanstead Quebec War Memorial.
The Stanstead Quebec War Memorial. Stanstead is on the Canada/US border (state of Vermont). For World War One, thirty-six men from Stanstead or from nearby communities are remembered on this war memorial. -
Detail of Memorial plaque
Detail of Memorial plaque affixed to the Stanstead War Memorial. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Robert Cecil Haselton
(From Stanstead College Yearbook, July 1919)Robert Cecil Haselton, of Beebe, enlisted for overseas service in the 117th Battalion, in January 1916, when he was eighteen years old. He went overseas to England in August. In February 1917, he was attached to the 24th Battalion Victoria Rifles as a corporal, and sent to France. He went through Vimy Ridge and a few minor encounters following it safely, but was killed in action at the taking of Hill 70 near Lens, August 15th, 1917. A comrade, in writing of him, said that Bobby had won the love and respect of all who knew him in the battalion, for he always played the game fair.
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cecil Haselton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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