Lance Corporal Sydney Ernest Haines
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Haines,
Sydney Ernest
Date of birth: 1893-02-19
Place of birth: London
Next of kin: Mrs. Frederick Haines, 83 Durban Road, watford, Hurtfordshire, England
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farming
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Arras Road Cemetery, I. A. 17.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 602503
Highest Rank:
Lance Corporal
(7th Battalion)
Rank detail
Lance Corporal, 7th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: He was hit in the head by an enemy machine gun bullet and killed instantaneoulsy during an attack on Vimy Ridge, shortly after leaving the old front line.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 279393
LAC ID:
439604
Service file: B3925-S020
Uploader's Notes: Son of Frederick Henry and Julia Elizabeth Wenmoth Haines, of 83, Durban Rd., Watford. England.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Lance Corporal Army Canadian Infantry 7th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-23