Albert Victor Haydon

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

109383

Unit at enlistment:

4th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

March 31st, 1916

Cemetery:

Maple Copse Cemetery - Ypres, Belgium - Sp. Mem. E.25.

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Warwickshire

Birth city:

Birmingham

Address at enlistment:

Burford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Birmingham, England

Trade or calling:

Farmer

Religious denominations:

Wesleyan

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Trenches at Mount Sorrel.

BX June 13, 1916

Private A. Victor Haydon Reported Killed – Burford Man Enlisted Here and Served Under Lieutenant Harvey Watt Cockshutt

Private Albert Victor Haydon of Burford was killed in action on March 31. This casualty appears to have been overlooked and friends state that they never saw his name in the casualty list. Private Haydon served under Lieut. H.W. Cockshutt. He was 20 years of age and enlisted here with the 25th Brant Dragoons, being later transferred to the 4th C.M.R.

BX June 12, 1919

Extract from Robert Sanders Letter

When we landed at Ypres I was made full corporal, and was in charge of No. 2 post in the gap, which was a piece of trench held only at night by a series of bombing posts, and No Man’s Land was only 35 yards wide, so you can understand that there wasn’t much movement on either side. On the dawn of March 31, 1916, I brought my party back to the front line and received our rum issue, after which I commenced to issue the rations to my section, of which Vic was one, and the rations were short, so Vic said he could take a walk as far as the battalion bombers to see if he could get any rations that they would not need. He started off with another one of the section, and had only got a few yards from shelter where we had been sitting, when a sniper got him through the brain. The next day he was buried in a small cemetery in Maple Copse, a few hundred yards behind the line and we had just got his grave nicely decorated with flowers when it was blown to pieces.