8th Battalion
Killed In Action
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William Henry Haley (SN 6281) was born at Waterloo near Beaufort. At the time of his enlistment in Ballarat in 1915, the 27 year old miner was living with his wife, Catherine, and five children in Windermere Street, Ballarat. He left Melbourne with the 8th Infantry Battalion on board the Euripides in September 1916 and, after a couple of months training in England, arrived in France at the beginning of 1917.
He was killed in action on April 16th 1917 at Lagnicourt, France and is buried in the Queant Road Cemetery, at Buissy, France.
