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Digital gallery of Private Horace Heber Haney
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Photo of Horace Heber Haney
Horace Heber Haney 28th Battalion C.E.F. -
Family photo
Horace's father, Horace Hartley Haney, was a trestle bridge construction foreman for several trestle bridges of the CPR and also Grand Trunk Pacific (which became the CN), including at the time, the world' longest wooden trestle bridge, the Duhamel, over the Battle River, completed in 1910. This photo has him as a boy, 2nd from right, beside his father, with his sister Norma at left, his mother Christina McArthur Haney standing, and his other sister Edith, recently married to William Bonner, both at the right in the horse carriage. This photo was taken at the camp set up for them at Cutarm Creek, near Tantallon, Saskatchewan, before the construction supervised by his father of the trestle bridge there, in 1907. His older brother George Hugh Haney was my grandfather, and at this time was an alderman in London, Ontario with a new family. There are more photos like this at www.riversdalyheritage.ca/photos/Haney/index.html -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Heber Haney
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Heber Haney
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Heber Haney
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Heber Haney
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Heber Haney
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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