157th Foresters, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), Innisfil Side, monument to Private Henry Flay. He was born in England in 1890 [monument lists dates as 1894] and he died on September 19, 1916 at Camp Borden of pneumonia [Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, note: listed as Harry Flay]. Buried at St. John's Cemetery, Cookstown. Born and lived in New Milton, Hampshire, England with his parents William Henry and Annie Elizabeth and one of four siblings. He was working as a milkman at that time and approximately aged 16. There is no clear date of immigration to Canada. [Source: www.ancestry.uk ] Flay enlisted with the CEF February 11, 1916 in Cookstown where he lived and worked as a farmer. Regimental number: 643476. He listed his date of birth as December 14th, 1890 and went by the name Harry, not Henry. [Source: Library and Archives Canada: Soldiers of the First World War ] His name can found commemorated in The Books of Remembrance WW1, page 86. Links: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/... http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/425426/FLAY,%20HARRY
