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LIEUT. JOHN HOWE, 14th Battalion, O. L. 1900. Killed in action on April 25th, 1916.
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14 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW to you for you to think that his death, however sudden, could be unprepared. On Sunday and 0927; the 16th and 17th, he received Holy Communion before going back to the trenches. ! buried him to-day, January 20th, in the little cemetery of the 24th Battalion. His body was untouched, save for the bullet-wound which caused his death. The Colonel and all the officers have told me how sorry they are to lose him. Corporal McKenna was held in the greatest esteem and affection by all in his Company and Battalion. He was one of my most fervent and devout boys ў LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GERALD Е. FURLONG : January 20th, 1916. I am sorry that I have to notify you of the death of Adrian. Не was killed in action yesterday morning, the 19th, about seven o'clock, when crossing overland from one of the trenches. You will be glad to know that he was at the Church Parade on Sunday and received Communion before going back to the trenches on Monday night. He was buried this A.M., in the Laiterie Cemetery, by Father Doyon, and I’ve sent all his belongings to the D.A.A.G. at the base, excepting the enclosed letters. So if you wish them sent to you, write at once to D.A.A.G., Canadian Division, G.H.Q., 3rd Echelon, France. If there is anything further I can do for you in this case, let me know. My deepest sympathy. LETTER FROM A LIEUTENANT OF THE 24th: Trenches, January 20th, 1916. It is with a great deal of sorrow that I am writing you about your brother's death. You don’t know how we all felt it, not only the Platoon in which he was, but also the officers and men of the whole Company. have been with the 24th only since the New Year, and your brother returned from hospital only about two days before we came into the trenches. From the little I saw of him, he struck me as a fine soldier, and 1 had spoken to Major Ross about making him a Sergeant, as I was in need of one. At the time, he was in charge of an isolated post about thirty yards out from our main trench, with four men. I had visited it during the night and everything was all right. The only way we have of communicating with it is by overland, and this can be carried out only during the night; and therefore the post is relieved every twenty-four hours. On the morning of the 19th, just after stand-to, | was in another part of the trench, and looking over the parados | saw him out in the open, facing his own post. I hurried up to where my Sergeant (Redmond) was, and asked him what Corporal McKenna was doing out there, and he said he had come over after something and was going back with it. We watched him as long as we could, and then I went to my dug-cut which I had no sooner entered than Sergeant Red- mond came to me and said Corporal McKenna had been shot. The boys of the Garrison showed their love for him by wanting, everyone, to go out and rescue him. I allowed six, counting my stretcher-bearers, to go out, and they bandaged up his wounds and brought him in, exposing themselves at the time. Не was hit about 7.30 A.M. and died before we t get him to the dressing-station, about 8.30 A.M., as it took so long to get him in through the mud. He is buried in the Battalion plot behind our front, and if you come over, you will be near enough to visit his grave. If there is anything else you would like to know, don’t mind asking me. - LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GEORGE VANIER OF THE 22ND: Somewhere in Flanders, January 21st, 1916. By this time you know the terrible news of Adrian's death in action. What can I say that would not be empty? You know how І feel...... He was one of those in the C.E.F. in ` whom I took the greatest interest. Unfortunately I did not run across him as often as I would have wished. Without being able to give you details, I can say that our battalions did not occupy exactly the same lines, and although two men may be billeted and may fight five hundred yards from one another, their paths may never cross. When Adrian was wounded, by a very singular coincidence I saw him in the ambulance. Our battalion that day happened to be resting in billets not very far from the firing line, and the 24th was in the front trenches. I was walking along the road when I heard an ambulance behind me. I stepped to one side, without hardly looking up. The ambulance passed me, had gone twenty feet when I heard my name called out. I looked up to see Adrian sitting in the rear end of the ambulance with one arm bound up and a cheery smile on his face. With the free arm he pointed towards one of his shoulders, and I knew then that he had been wounded somewhere near the shoulder and that the wound could not be serious. | was unable to speak to him because the motor ambulance was speeding away at a fast clip. Then
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