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Edwin Staley

Edwin Staley
Rank: 
Lance Sergeant
Regimental number: 
164027
Unit at enlistment: 
84th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
November 18th, 1916
Cemetery: 
Vimy Memorial - Pas de Calais, France
Commemorated at: 
Brantford Congregational Church
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Derbyshire
Birth city: 
Newhall
Address at enlistment: 
264 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
264 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Moulder
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
30
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Letters and documents

Cause and Place of Death: Killed in Action

BX December 7, 1917

Two Brant County Men Pay Price – Lance Sergeant Edwin Staley, City, and Ben Stevenson, Paris, Killed

Two Brant County men are reported killed in action in this morning’s lists. Lance Sergeant Edwin Staley, 184 Brock Street, is reported as having paid the supreme price. This is thought to be Edwin Staley, who enlisted from Cainsville with the 2nd Dragoons in July 1915. He is a married man and of English nationality.

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