Stephen Halliday arrived in France as a Gunner in 'B' Battery, 93rd Brigade, R.F.A. on 22 July 1915.
Having won both of his M.Ms in the short space of ten weeks in the summer of 1917, he was killed in action on 8 October: Of events on that date, the Battery's war diary states that two guns were moved forward in the Poelcapelle area but that the position was 'ultimately abandoned': abandoned surely because of enemy artillery fire which killed two officers and nine other ranks, in addition to wounding six other men.
Halliday has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917. Bar to M.M. London Gazette 28 September 1917.
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