Saturday 29 August 2009

Lieutenant Samuel Leonard Tillery Harrison

Joined the 145th Battalion, CEF, on 20 December 1915 - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion, CEF, as a Lieutenant on 23 August 1918 - killed in action on 29 September 1918 - buried in Bourlon Wood Cemetery (grave II.A.6), France.

(sources: Canadian War Museum, 19740281-001, Manu 58F 2 3, 207th Canadian Infantry Battalion and 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Nominal Roll; The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa Regimental Museum, A400-0007, Master Personnel List for the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Commonwealth War Graves Commission, "Debt of Honour" Register, www.cwgc.org)

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