Oxford Soldier In Twenty Fifth Among Wounded
Twenty-Fifth Battalion
Wounded ­ LLOYD MacPHERSON, OXFORD, NS
Died of wounds, March 9th DANIEL C. McMASTER, Sydney, C.B.
Wounded EDMUND BAIN, Digby, NS,
HERBERT WILLIAM COOKE, Springhill, NS
Dangerously wounded: FRANK A. CLARKE, Windsor, NB

Twenty-Sixth Battalion
Killed in Action: CHARLES R. McNUTT, Wallace Highlands, Cumberland N.S.

Nova Scotians In Casualty List
Ottawa, April 4
The following Nova Scotians were in the casualty list issued at
midnight:

Wounded - GUY P. HARNISH, Lequille, NS
Wounded - Pioneer, MICHAEL C. McLELLAN, now Waterford, N.S.
Killed in action - EDWIN BEATON, Amherst.
Died of wounds - Wm S. MILLS, Amherst.
Wounded - SIDNEY ANDREWS, Stellarton.

OBIT - Mrs. HARRIS ALLEN
The many friends and relatives of Mrs. HARRIS ALLEN, formerly of Fox River, will regret to hear of her death at home in Eastburg, Alta, on March 10th, aged 31 years. She was taken to Edmonton for burial. Mrs. ALLEN was a member of the Diligent River Baptist church while here and after her removal to the West she became a member of the Baptist church. She leaves to mourn a husband, son of Mrs. REUBEN SPENCE of this town, three brothers and two sisters.---Leader

OBIT - Mr. GEORGE BRANDER
Northport, March 27th
After a lingering illness of tuberculosis, the death took place in
Northport on Sunday of GEORGE BRANDER, youngest son of Mr. ROBERT BRANDER. The deceased at the time of his death was in his early twenties, and was a young man of sterling qualities.
Besides his parents, he leaves several brothers, and one sister. The
bereaved ones have the sympathy of the community in their great loss. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

Private EDGAR ANDERSON of the Reinforcement Battalion, now training in Halifax, spent the weekend with his sister, Mrs. LORAN B. THOMPSON.

ROBERT E. FARROW has enlisted in the 193rd Battalion, and his wife is stopping with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. ALEX MOORE, James St.

WALLACE
The news was received by telegram last week of the death of CHARLES McNUTT, son of JAMES McNUTT of Wallace Highlands. He enlisted at St. John, N.B. and was connected with a machine gun section. He was killed in action on Sunday, March 19th somewhere in France. Deep sympathy is felt for Mr. & Mrs. McNUTT and the family. They have given two other sons also to the service of the Empire. One is now training in Cumberland and one is at Truro. CHARLES McNUTT is the first of the Wallace contingent of soldiers to fall on the field of battle.

Pte PERCY EDGETT was in Wallace on Saturday and Sunday.

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