HAROLD+OAKLEY

Oakley, Harold, Private, 105122, 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Born Holloway, Derbyshire Enlisted Regina, Saskatchewan Resided Abernethy, Saskatchewan Died of wounds 27th September 1916 aged 20 Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Oakley, of Holloway, nr. Matlock, England. Buried in Contay British Cemetery, II, D, 3

1911 Census A hosiery mill office boy Son of William, a hosiery frame worker, and Mary Ellen Oakley, of Holloway, Derbyshire

Canadian Army Service records information: Harold was born in Holloway, Derbyshire, on the 26th May, 1896. He enlisted in Regina, Saskatchewan, 4th November 1915, stating his occupation as a farmer, his address as Abernethy, Saskatchewan, and his next of kin as his father, William Oakley, of Holloway, Derbyshire. He was five feet nine and three quarter inches in height, had a dark complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and he was a Methodist.


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