Source: The Huron Expositor, 1916-05-12, Page 1.
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Family Search:When Private Harold Victor Polley was born on 7 June 1896, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, David Polley, was 43 and his mother, Cordelia, was 39. He immigrated to Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and lived in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1914 and Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1921, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as locomotive pipe fitter in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1957, in Wood Green, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 61.
— With the enlistment of Samuel Polley of Stratford, in the 64th Battery, six sons of Mr. David Polley had donned the khaki. Charles was killed at Langemarck, Harry is with the 18th Battalion. In the trenches, Joseph is Sergt.-Major in the 34th, Albert is a member of the 110th Perth Battalion. David is in the British army in England, and now Samuel had joined the artillery. The father himself, who is a veteran of the British Army, had been repeatedly refused admission to the army owing to his age, but is making munitions.
Source: The Huron Expositor, 1916-05-12, Page 1.
Was a sniper according to a London Advertiser article interview of Sergeant M.H. Lee relating those who were in his sniping platoon.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 