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DR. A. D. NWSHarold Patton, Member of the 48th Highlanders, Met Death in France Only Two of 1102 LeftThe great war has brought sadness to at least one Minot home. Dr. Archie D. McCannel received a telegram from his eldest Bister, Mrs. Patton of Toronto, Can., Monday stating that her only son, Harold, had died of wounds received in fighting in the trenches in France.Harold was a member of the 48th Highlanders, who marched away from Toronto shortly after the war broke out, 1100 strong. Not a member of the 48th was less than six feet in height and Harold, then a youth of 20, stood six feet two. He had been the champion basketball player of the whole of Toronto and was a young giant in proportions. For 22 months he fought in the trenches and on June 3 last he was wounded while fighting in the battle of Ypres. He was in the hospital for a time but recovered and went back into the trenches. Dr. McCannel received a letter from his sister Monday morning telling of Harold’s last sickness but the young soldier in order to keep his mother from worrying wrote that he would soon be well again. That afternoon the sad telegram arrived. Out of the 1102 of the 48th Highlanders who left Toronto, only two are now left
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The Ward County Independent
Minot, North Dakota, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1916
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