Henry Lionel Silley

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

227142

Unit at enlistment:

Depot Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Surrey

Birth city:

Wimbledon

Address at enlistment:

52 Brock Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

52 Brock Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Student

Employer:

Brantford Business College

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX August 21, 1918

The same messenger handed a telegram to Mr. Drury and to his next neighbor at work, Mr. Edwin Silley, each of them hearing of the wounding of his son. Private Henry Lionel Silley has been hit in the right arm. His brother Herbert is fighting in the Grand Fleet and five of his cousins are in the Imperial army. His parents live at 52 ½ Brock Street, and when he enlisted for overseas he was a student at the Business College. It was on August 9th that he was wounded.