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Oatley, Percy: Service no. 54132

Digitized Service Record

Source: Elgin Military Museum post on Facebook.

Sergeant Percy Oatley. Source: CVWM

"Killed in Action" In the early morning of August 15, 1918 he was sleeping in his "funk hole" in the old German Line just southwest of Fouquescourt when an enemy shell exploded near him and shrapnel from it penetrated his head and lungs, killing him instantly. — “Killed in Action” In the early morning of August 15, 1918 he was sleeping in his “funk hole” in the old German Line just southwest of Fouquescourt when an enemy shell exploded near him and shrapnel from it penetrated his head and lungs, killing him instantly.

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18th Battalion CEF War Diary by Month 1915 – 1919
18th Battalion Facebook Group
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
In From the Cold Project
IWUY 'STOIRE PRESERVE MEMORY
LAC Copy of 18th Battalion Nominal Roll. Opens as a PDF.
Letters from Vincent
Melville Cafe in Cambidge, Ontario
Regimental Family of The Essex and Kent Scottish

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Behind Their Lines
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Doing Our Bit: Commemorating Soldiers of the First World War
First World War Veterans of Guysborough County
Great War 100 Reads
If Ye Break Faith
Languages and the First World War
Military Artifact – MilArt
Patrick M. Dennis Canadian Military Historian, Analyst
Simon Jones Historian
The Canadian Centre for the Great War
THE LAND OF GOOD NEIGHBOURS
The Regimental Rouge

CEF Units

"C" Company 133rd Battalion, at Camp Borden 1916
102nd Battalion: The Story of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion
106th Overseas Battalion C.E.F. Nova Scotia Rifles
117th Eastern Townships Overseas Battalion, CEF
143rd Battalion C.E.F. (B.C. Bantams)
15th Battalion Memorial Project
161st Huron Battalion ~ Diary of the Soldiers
168th Battalion – Sons of England
19th Battlion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
202nd Overseas (Sportsman's) Battalion CEF
21st Battalion CEF
22nd Battalion
28th (Northwest) Battalion
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in the Great War, The
38th Battalion: Soldiers of the 38th
3rd Battalion War Diaries Transcription Project
43rd Battalion: Cameron Highlanders of Canada Memorial Site (43rd Battalion)
46th Battalion (South Saskatchewan)
48th Highlanders of Canada
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
54th Canadian Infantry Battalion in the Great War
85TH OVERSEAS BATTALION C. E. F.
Cambridge Commemorates WW1
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
Canadian Medical Services Virtual Museum
Canadian Military Police Virtual Museum
History of the 19th Battalion, CEF
It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
Record of service – Overseas Military Forces of Canada medical units
Royal Canadian Medical Service Association
The 60th Battalion C.E.F.
The Canadians at Passchendaele – Friends of the 58th Battalion
WW1 Canadian Regimental Histories

Images and Movies

Canada's Great War Album
Canadian Soldiers of WW1
Canadians in Bexhill
GRAVES REGISTRATION UNIT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM 1914-1920
The Great War
The Great War 1914 – 1918 (Canada)
WW1: Pictures before and during 1914-1918 in the Pas de Calais (In French)

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Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 – No Longer Active
Field Punishment No.1
First World War Hidden History
The Illustrated First World Warfrom the archives of The Illustrated London News – Content Changed Not Useful
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Women Heroes of World War I

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Always a Soldier
Canada's Great War Album
DAN-JOE & MALCOLM (WW1)
Durham at War: Mapping to Story of County Durham (UK)
Great War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario, Canada
HAROLD WENT TO WAR
Huron Remembers: 18th Battalion Soldiers
Lakefield War Veterans
Letters from Vincent
My Grandfather's War & the 21st. Battn. CEF
Patriots, Crooks and Safety-Firsters: Colonels of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Percy's War
Remembering the 149th Lambton Battalion: The Letters of Madeline and Lieutenant William Albert Williams, 1913 – 1919
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A Guide to Canadian Military Postal History 1636‒1970
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Campaign Atlas to the Great War
Canadian Courts Martial of the First World War
Canadian Expeditionary Force Clothing – 1903 to 1919
Canadian Expeditionary Force War Diaries Viewer
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919 and the Canadian Army, 1939–1945 Research Guide for the Canadian War Museum. (PDF)
Canadian Letters and Images Project
Canadian Military History at WLU
Canadian Military History Gateway
Canadian Military Police Virtual Museum
CANADIAN WAR BRIDES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
Cyndi's List: Genological Sites for Canadian Military Research
Dominion Geordies in World War 1
Dummer Township: Soldiers of the Great War
Education Resources for World War 1
Experience Vimy
First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme
Flowers of the Forest
Google Earth: The Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War 1914-1921
Great War Weather
Imperial War Mueseum: Lives of the Great War
International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Kenora Great War Project
LAC Copy of 18th Battalion Nominal Roll. Opens as a PDF.
Laurier Military History Archive
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Nicholson Utility: Wiki relating to " Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919" by Nicholson
Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Ontario War Memorials
Patriots, Crooks and Safety-Firsters: Colonels of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Peace and War in the 20th Century
Peterborough and the First World War: An Online Museum
Remembering the Fallen
Remembering the Great War: The Record's Listing of War Dead from Waterloo Region
Reseaching a Canadian Who Died in the First World War by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.
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Royal Canadian Corps Sigs Militaria Great War Portal
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Search: Military Medals, Honours and Awards, 1812-1969
Strathroy-Cradoc Museuam Virtual War Memorial
Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers
Swedes at the Western Front
The First Tank Crews
The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
The Returned
Through Veterans Eyes
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War Records Revealed: British, Commonwealth and other military records
WW1
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Armistice Day
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Canadian Military History at WLU
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National Libray of Scotland Trench Map Resource
Nicholson Utility: Wiki relating to " Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919" by Nicholson
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper Archive
The First World War War Diary of The Royal Canadian Regiment
The Regimental Rouge
Uxbridge Remembers WW1
Victoria to Vimy
War Songs from the first half of the twentieth century collection.
Wartime Canada
Waterloo Region During the First World War

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