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Rees Halliday
Mercantile Marine Reserve HMS Laurentic
from:Jarrow
(d.25th Jan 1917)
Rees Halliday who died aged 25 was born and lived in Jarrow. He also enlisted there. He was the son of Thomas Halliday and the late Rachel Halliday (nee Dobson). His older brother George and younger brother David were also of the fallen. Rees Halliday, age 18, carpenter at Shipyard is with his widowed father Thomas Halliday and his brothers George and David Halliday at 65 Franklin Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Rees is buried in Upper Fahan (St. Mura's) Church of Ireland Churchyard.