Family
His son, Paul Hartley Raney, a fighter pilot in the First World War, was killed in action, shot down over Roulers, Belgium (then German territory) on August 21, 1917. After the War, Raney made many appeals to the War Graves Commission to locate his son's final resting place. Unfortunately, no grave could be located.
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