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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
66th Sqdn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of William Edgar and Jessie Amelia Raney, of Toronto, Ontario. Graduate in Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Plaque
1914-1918 Memorial tablet, Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, 300 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. This congregation was established in 1887, and in 1925 became the Bloor Street United Church. The tablet was unveiled on May 16th, 1920. It was inscribed: "In memory of the men of Bloor Street Presbyterian Church who went out to battle and died for Freedom's cause. They feared not Death and meeting it they won the Victor's Crown." -
Photo of Paul Raney
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
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