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Son of Henry and Eva Fay, of Milton West, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Milton Ontario War Memorial (1926), Victoria Park Square, Milton,
Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Names listed on the Milton Ontario War Memorial.
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France<P>
(permission for use from Maple Leaf Legacy Project)
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Charles Henry Fay
Company Quartermaster Sergeant Fay was the son of Henry and Eva Fay of (Hornby) Milton and the older brother of Richard Fay, killed the previous day. Fay attested to the Canadian Engineers Training Depot as a Private in December 1915. He was promoted to Lance Corporal in January 1917 and C.Q.M.S. on May 24, 1918.
C.Q.M.S .Fay was killed in action while serving with the 11th Battalion (formerly Field Company) Canadian Engineers on September 3, 1918. He was proceeding on leave to England when he was killed by a bomb dropped by an enemy airplane. He was 35 years old at the time, killed during what is known as "Canada's Hundred Days".
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Milton Ontario War Memorial (1926), Victoria Park Square, Milton, Ontario, Canada.
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Names listed on the Milton Ontario War Memorial.
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Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France<P> (permission for use from Maple Leaf Legacy Project)
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Company Quartermaster Sergeant Fay was the son of Henry and Eva Fay of (Hornby) Milton and the older brother of Richard Fay, killed the previous day. Fay attested to the Canadian Engineers Training Depot as a Private in December 1915. He was promoted to Lance Corporal in January 1917 and C.Q.M.S. on May 24, 1918. C.Q.M.S .Fay was killed in action while serving with the 11th Battalion (formerly Field Company) Canadian Engineers on September 3, 1918. He was proceeding on leave to England when he was killed by a bomb dropped by an enemy airplane. He was 35 years old at the time, killed during what is known as "Canada's Hundred Days".
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Commemorated on:
Page 406 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.
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