Name: Hiram Fredrick Delaney Regimental Number: 67309 Rank: Private Battalion: 25th Battalion, ”C” Company Date of Birth: July 16, 1894 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: November 15, 1914 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 20 Height: 5 Feet 10 1/2 Inches Complexion: Fresh Eye Colour: Hazel Hair Colour: Dark Brown Marital Status: Single Trade: Plumber Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Walter Delaney (Father) Yarmouth, NS Date of Death: October 6, 1916 Age at Death: 22 Cemetery: Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France Grave Reference: II. H. 3. Commemorated on Page 76 of the First World War Book of Remembrance This page is displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 25 Listed on the Nominal List of the 25th Battalion Hiram Fredrick Delaney was the son of Walter William Delaney and Sophia Delaney, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He enlisted with the 25th Battalion and trained in Canada until May of 1915. He arrived in England, embarking Halifax on the SS Saxonia, and disembarking in England on May 29, 1915. He embarked for France from Folkestone, Kent, England, on September 9, 1915. On April 29, 1916 he was wounded in action and hospitalized. Recovered he rejoined the 25th Battalion on July 16, 1916. On September 20, he was again wounded, a gunshot to the head received in action at the Battle for Courcelette. He was hospitalized at No 16 General Hospital, Le Treport, France, where he died from wounds on October 6, 1916.

Hiram Fredrick Delaney (back row third left) photos courtesy of Catherine Lombard-Nixon

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Yarmouth Times Tuesday October 10, 1916 News of Private Delaney. The following letter has been received from Chaplain E.E. Graham addressed to Mrs. Walter Delaney. No. 7 Canadian General Hospital B.E.F., France Sept. 22, 1916 Mrs. Walter Delaney Yarmouth, NS Dear Madam I am writing for your son, Pte Delaney of the 25th Battalion, who was wounded in the fighting at the end of last week as you no doubt know, and is dangerously ill in No. 16 British General Hospital here at Le Treport. In addition to minor wounds in leg and shoulder he has a very severe one at the back of the head. He has had an operation here and while the doctors do not consider his case at all hopeless, yet his condition is not what they would call satisfactory as yet. He is in excellent hands in a well equipped hospital. Everything possible will be done for him and I hope and pray that with the good care he is receiving and in God’s good providence he may by the time this reaches you be on the way to recovery. I am glad to be able to visit him and other members of the 25th who are in English hospitals here and to render any service I can. I shall try to keep you informed of his progress. He is quite conscious and is not suffering greatly. He sends his love and asks you not to worry as “everything is all right.” Faithfully yours, E. E. Graham, Chaplain A telegram received here Sunday states that Private Delaney is dangerously ill.