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CAPTAIN JOHN P. WALSH, No. 2 Hospital, C. A.M.C. B.A. 1904. Died of Wounds, August 17th, 1916.
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20 Е ОПУОТАЗСО БЕБЕ СЕ REV РЕМ heavy shell fixe from the German Artillery, and rescued at his own risk several wounded men. Тће many friends whom Captain Walsh made while at Loyola have followed his career with interest and pride. His heroic life and holy death were worthy of a Catholic soldier fighting in a great cause. On behalf of his old College, we offer his relativ es our deep sympathy in their grief at his loss. FROM MGR. BURKE, Head Catholic Canadian Chaplain. I.am sorry to have to inform you that your dear good brother, Capt. J. P. Walsh, is dead. Col. Delaney, who loved him dearly and closed his eyes in death, will give you the particulars. Enough for me to assure you that he died in the full faith of the Catholic Church and with all her blessings. Не was quite reconciled and committed his soul to God, and sent a tender message to you and his other sister and friends. Не died for his country; he was worthy of his faith; he had every good man’s admiration and God's favour. We shall bury him reverently, with all the rites of Holy Mother Church, Monday. I shall pontificate the requiem myself. Col. Delaney and many other friends will be at the service. I pray you then to be reconciled to this act of God's will—the Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. With every tender word of sympathy and condolence. P.S.—Col. Ross, his O.C., spoke to me to-night of your brother’s great service and splendid qualities of mind and heart.... A N FROM FATHER WORKMAN, O.F.M., Senior Chaplain. Although I have seen so much happen during this dreadful war, the news of his death was a great shock to me. I happened to be up in the trenches when he was hit, and though he suffered very much from the moment he was hit, I never thought the wound would prove fatal. He had every attention, though it was a little too “hot” to bring him out for two hours or so. I went back two days later to see him at the Casualty Clearing. He was making a brave fight then. But I was very much surprised to see how frail a body he had. I spoke to the nurse, and she told me he ought to have reported sick three months before. He had stuck to his post in the trenches too long, and had been drawing on his wonderful nerve. We had become close friends ever since he was posted to the 2nd Battalion. He gave the men excellent example by his faithful attendance at Holy Mass and the Sacraments. An officer of that stamp is of wonderful help to the priest.. I shall not soon forget all that he was to me and my work, and know now that God is rewarding him for it. You will have heard from other sources how dear he was to. the officers and men of his battalion. I know he was recommended for the Military Cross, and.that he richly deserved it over and over again. We were expecting the award, but his sad death came first, and God is now doing the awarding... . FROM LT.-COL. DELANEY. Prior Park, Combe Down, Bath, 17th Aug., 1916. I am sure that you know that it is with a very heavy heart that I am sitting here writing you this evening, and how sorry I am to be the bearer of such bad news. But I feel that it is better for me to write you than a stranger, and I am sure that Johnny would have done as much for me, if 1 had been in his place. You know how much I cared for him, and how much care and attention he gave me when I was ill. I have never forgotten, and neither has my family, all his kindness to me and my sister. To tell the story from the beginning: I got a letter from Percy Wright, saying that Johnny had been hit on Saturday. This was received on the following Thursday. 1 immediately wrote him, asking to be notified when Johnny left France. I did not get any word till by accident I came on a casualty list, saying that he had been evacuated to England on Saturday. I only e on Tuesday evening, and 1 immediately got up to London that night, getting in at 5 .m. In the morning I had the office D.M.S. phone, and the report was good, so I went to settle some official work at Canadian Headquarters and finished there at 12.30 noon. I got out to the 2nd London General Hospital, Chelsea, at 1.30 p.m., and, to my great sorrow, I was told that he was operated for a secondary hemorrhage from his wound. It appears that he was wounded in the thigh, a dirty wound, with pieces of clothing in it and a piece of shrapnel in the big blood vessel of the thigh. In France they operated and removed all metal and dirt from the wound, but when he
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