Hi Hilary/Maria,

One of the things I do for people is when I have time and think of it, I do searching for information as a sort of "geneological kindness" as so many people have doone for me. I write down the names and pull out the list and random search. I did this with your fathers name this morning ... I simply enetered in Google "Arthur Gallant soldier"

LOOK what I found! You may already have come across this information of this WW1 Arthur Gallant, a fallen soldier ... I think it's too much coincidence that this Arthur Gallant and your father hold the same name and are from PEI. My guess is that your father MAY be a namesake of Arthur Gallant the Fallen Soldier of WW1.It's at least worth checking into ... if one of his siblings had a son, I could understand how they might name the son after the lost sibling. IF so... well ... you may find relations withstories and photos and who knows what else. I HOPE this is not adead end for you. But what are the ODDS... Both Arthur Gallants were from PEI... different wars. There is an email address for the man/relative who wrote about the WW1 Arthur at this page link:

http://www.islandregister.com/agallant.html

Oh ... another thing ... you might find this Arthurs Gallants Attestation records online at http://www.archives.ca They have a free searchable database of WW1 Soldiers.

I'll truly keep my fingers crossed for you that this is new information to you and that you may be lucky to have found people who will have known your father. I do hope so.

(I know what it's like to live with gaps where family knowledge should be as a birthright. I help if I can)