PTE. BEN
WRIGHT HOWARTH
Killed in Action
An employee of the Simcoe Litho.
Went overseas with Lieut. Walter Force in Norfolk's second detail.
Has been in the fighting nearly two years. Was wounded last
summer.
His father, also a soldier, is in
England suffering from shell shock.
Private Ben Howarth was still a
little short of twenty-one and single. He is the eldest of a large
family of children. The mother lives on Agricultural Street in
Simcoe.