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Enlisted with the Lincoln & Welland Regiment in Niagara, Ontario, he was deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, on 23 October 1941 in camp Valcartier, Québec. Killed in action, he was buried in Stanley cemetery, grave 1.B.32 then reburied in Sai Wan cemetery.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Merritton Ontario War Memorial
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Names on the Merriton Ontario War Memorial
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Grave Marker
Rifleman HARVEY REGINALD LAFFERTY is one 283 Canadian soldiers, 107 of whom are unidentified, who are buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers who were killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Rifleman HARVEY REGINALD LAFFERTY was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8th, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
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Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
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Circumstances of death
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St Catharines Standard c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
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Rifleman Harvey Reginald Lafferty
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 35 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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