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Youngest Canadian officer 23 earns bar for bravery
Paris reports James Mathews of San Francisco the surviving officer of Hill 70 and the youngest major in the Canadian army. He won a bar to his Military Cross for leading his company through heavy losses when Hill 70 finally held after repeated German assaults. He rose from private in Victoria to lieutenant then major after his unit was nearly wiped out.
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Paris
James Mathews
San Francisco
Mathews
Victoria
B.C
Joseph A. Ulanan
Seattle
Urea Fy Lake
Lume
Blackmun
Leon
Augsburg
Blackman
Hluskinan
Velomiminder
Cevolvers
Vieutenant Braekiuan
Vancou
Amverivan
Bari