A GALLANT SOLDIER
OFFICER'S TRIBUTE TO WELLINGTON SOLDIISE. With respect to the recent death at the front of Private James Anderson (son of Mr. Allan Anderson of Majoribanks Street), Captain A. E. Brown has written to Sir. Anderson as follows:—"It is with very great regret that I have to write to you confirming the news of your son's death. As you will havo learnt from tho papers wo have been in the thick of the fighting here, and it was during the advance about Bapaume that your son met hie death, being killed by shell fire. Wβ had just established a new front line, having driven the Hun back," and therefore were very heavily shelled for a considerable time. Your son was a brave and gallant soldier, making the great sacrifice that thoso near and dear to him might be secured from German brutality, and I nm surn that you will be proud of him, and the fact that ho nobly died, doing his duty to the end His body was buried in front of the" village of Favreuil. We can only offer to you and yours our heartfelt sympathy, and pray that God may give you comfort in your sorrow."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 36, 6 November 1918, Page 4
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201A GALLANT SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 36, 6 November 1918, Page 4
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