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Record #4687
Name :
: Harold HALE (1908 - 1943)
  aka : Aaron Hale


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 7 Jul 1908

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 26 Nov 1943   Notes : WWII - gunshot wound - leg 22 Nov, died of wounds
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Coseley, Wolverhampton

6 Chapel Street
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialItaly, Ortona
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 23 May 1920
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Minnedosa

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Middlemore
NotesHarold Hale was born on July 7, 1908 in Wolverhampton, England; under the name of Aaron Hale (name changed to Harold Aaron Hale). His mother was Harriet Hale, an unmarried domestic servant, there is no mention on his birth certificate of who his father was. He was placed in a Middlemore Orphanage in Birmingham, England as a baby. He came to Canada at the age of 12, leaving England on May 14, 1920, aboard the Minnedosa, arriving at Quebec City on May 23, 1920. He ended up working on a farm in New Brunswick. The work was hard and he was given a small room in the attic to stay in.

On January 7, 1931 he married Nellie Edwina Smith, at the residence of her father on Hawthorn St., Windsor, Nova Scotia, by a minister of the Baptist Church. At the time, Harold was listed as a labourer, living in Apohaqui (just outside Saint John), NB, and Nellie was a student nurse. After they were married, they lived in Windsor, NS. On August 7, 1931, Nellie gave birth prematurely to a daughter, who only lived 2 hours. At some point in the next two years, they moved to Saint John, NB. On February 21, 1933, Nellie gave birth to a son, Stanley Harold Hale.

Harold joined the army during World War II, his attestation papers being signed July 8, 1941, becoming a gunner with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was with the Canadian Army at Ortona, Italy, and was wounded by a gunshot on November 22, 1943, and died of his injuries on November 26, 1943, just before the final push by the Canadians to take Ortona from the Germans, in one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Harold was intially buried in the cemetery at Campobasso, then later reburied at Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, at Ortona, Italy. Nellie and Stanley stayed on in Saint John, NB, where Nellie worked as a nurse for the rest of her working life. Later in life, due to ill health, she moved to Nova Scotia with Stanley, where they lived with her sister. Nellie later moved to a nursing home outside of Moncton, NB, where she died on January 3, 1996, at the age of 92. Stanley died shortly before or shortly after her. According to her nephew, Nellie and her son, Stanley, were devoted to each other all their lives. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-02-08 08:32:46 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-05-05 02:30:58 /

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