GUNNER HARRY ALFRED HADLEY
CANADIAN FIELD ARTILLERY
22ND JUNE 1916 AGE 20
BURIED: RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Steadfast and undaunted, two wonderfully old fashioned words redolent of the Christian martyrs and heroes of the past who all faced unflinchingly the trails they knew were to come.
Harry Alfred Hadley came from St Vincent in the British West Indies where his father, Vincent Hadley, owned the Union Estate. He served with the 2nd Division Ammunition Column of the Canadian Field Artillery and was killed on 2 June 1916 when the War Diary simply notes:
Dickebusch June 22 Thursday Fine and Clear
Enemy fairly quiet on our front with a little shelling in back country.
