239 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LAVALLEY, Burlyn Eli Burlyn was born in Cape Croker, Ontario on May 21, 1894, the son of Patrick and Amanda (Richards) Lavalley. On December 28, 1915, Burlyn enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in Wiarton, Ontario with the 160th Infantry Battalion (Bruce Battalion), Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. He was 21 years old and single. He listed his trade as fisherman and had no previous military experience. Private Lavalley sailed on the SS Metagama to arrive in England on October 28, 1916. After training and working in England for more than a year, he landed in France on March 29, 1918, assigned to the 18th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Western Ontario Regiment), part of the 2nd Canadian Division. He suffered gunshot wounds on October 12 of that year during “Canada’s Hundred Days” final offensive that ended the war. He was invalided for further service and repatriated to Canada to be discharged on April 8, 1919. Burlyn later married Josephine Josette Tobey and lived in Honey Harbour, Ontario until he passed away on February 26, 1951. LAW, Ray Edison Ray was born in Cardinal, Ontario on July 9, 1899, moving to Toronto as a boy. He began his military service with the 10th Regiment Royal Grenadiers from 1913 to 1916 as a boy bugler. Too young to enlist at the start of World War I, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Flying Corps from May 1918 until April 1919. He served again inWorldWar II with the Lincoln andWelland Regiment then with the Canadian Intelligence Corps where he completed his military service in January 1946 as a Staff Sergeant. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22 for fifty years. Ray passed away in October 1982. LAVERY, Earl Clifford Private Earl Clifford Lavery was born on September 2, 1895 in Dorking, Ontario (between Listowel and Elmira). On March 2, 1916, he enrolled in the Army with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, eventually ending up in the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion. He sailed to England on the SS Scandinavian on January 23, 1917, arriving safely a couple of weeks later. He was sent to France and was wounded by shrapnel in the right shoulder on November 6, 1917 but returned to duty after a stint in Number 3 Australian General Hospital. Sadly, near Arras, France, he was hit in the mouth and killed by enemy machine gun fire on September 2, 1918. It was his eighteenth birthday. He is buried at Sun Quarry Cemetery, Cherisy, Row F, Grave 6. Earl’s is one of the 186 burials there. He was the son of Meredith and Margaret Lavery of Wallenstein, Ontario near Elmira. He also left a brother, Ralph. The inscription on his headstone reads: “HOW CAN A MAN DIE HAPPIER THAN FACING FEARFUL ODDS”.
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