10 CASTLEGAR NEWS, ‘Thursday, April 13, 1967

Loca War Veti is Last Survivor of 102nd Battalion |

ear Sir:

This letter may well be of
interest to you and all your
readers, It mentions Fred Pratt,
who at  prepent lives at Blewett.

oldest brother,
who ‘enlisted in World War 1 to-| V!
gather with te next oldest bro-

at the Nelton re
sruiting station lon, They went into
Later, in

alin
they were transferred to the
02nd Battalion,
was, liyin, at
come out ving at

The fat
Thrums, hat
England in 19
My two brottiers were 18 and
hy of age at the time’ of| a!
8 e other: young
men from Thrums and Tarrys

a goodly percentage you must

agresh of our English descended

popul ulation of seven to eight
families,

Sad to say, Bob Wallace and
Tick Montgomery were killed in

action ihe other three wound- in

ed bac

; of
any. 0! thers, my.brother would
appreciate hearing of them.

training at Comox, | Fusiliers

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t el

Then you want a central addy turn
close to all at ng, yet a

to sult your budget. We have a| cveryeua
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are close to beaches at
Park. Please feel free to

a line for our descriptive
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MOTOR HOTEL
MUlval 42-1831 Davie at Denman
Commercial Cards honored.
‘On English Bay at Stanley Park’

¥| formation nee found the plane
us| trip to Ottawa would take about

Because of being the last
survivor of the 102nd Battalion
my brother made application
last January to be included as
a delegate to. the memorial bot
Hoel to be held in France at

imy Ridge next Sunday, April

Fred was told his name
would be forwarded to the com-
manding officer of the Irish

too ill ‘from nervous strain, he
tempt at what now seemed to

Plaming Wl

in
sre This, letter was dated Feb.

‘Abou t the first week in|
March Fred took a long distance

phone call from Vancouver. 7 what they

gentlemen introduced
t, Col. (name not heard
clearly fhe commanding office:

gE tel
jh Fusiliers and told
ominated to| ©!

Fred he had been ni

have beiped facilitate matters.
At time

Battalion Ma

that hi

me’ Fred was becoming extre-
cause. Ottawa had

in: | th

112 Pours — from around 10.30

am. Because he ‘would have

needed to leave on Tuesday, be-
to. be Hawa

ing.

Wednentay night at the latest,
and Mr. Herridge would be un-

able to contact. anyone before

Monday, that left only. Monday

for preparations,

Sunday my... brother,
phoned me to say that as he was

‘

Scopes it

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PISTOLS and REVOLVERS
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BROWNING AND RUGER
SCOPES IN STOCK

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the 102nd Battalion.

would have to give up any at-
him to be an impossible achieve-
ment,

With sad regrets I sent a als e-bes
telegram to Mr. Herridge  ex- have elped considerably.

why any efforts on his
would now. be futlle, hoping
e telegram would reach him
noon enough to avoid any waste

It is so unfortunate that the | also enclosed: a copy of a cli
circumstances were not known| ping

earlier a8 these are many in the} newspaper, circa 1922, contain:
district who wotild have done
could, I am sure, to the, 102nd Battalion, of whi

“I wish to ex-|tain facts, auch fa as the rank of

Bis Kindness. It is deeply appre-| who served in famous 10znd

My purpose in outlining this

little story is not to in individu- | Sir:
al sympathy but to point out that
I feels a matter of a delegate | servance of Vimy Ridge it may
to the Ridge Memorial|be interesting to recall the ex-
should vee been a Kootenay

district project, as there must| incident of the First Great War. | aid.
have been so many from the dist- On
rict who served their country in | shoot.

However, as the entire mat-

ven, but that would
Thank you,
Mrs, Norah Olsen,
Box 1444,
Castlegar, B.C.
Editor’s' note: Mrs, Olsen
from a Vi
ing some’ details of: action by
Pratt: was a member. Cer-

the narrator, Bartholemu,
at the time of The action, are

The clippin,
Recounts Gloiow: dee ren of th

Battalion.
Editor, Vancouver Sun;

In connection with the ob-

perience of the infantry in that

memorial occasion

Sergeant ‘Wm. * Massey of

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Tell Lois: 365-5503.
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tin
et sore

‘present
oe be interesting to see
usiastic
few. years : from 1 now. a

While women seem to have
taken

falling their w:

One housewife would like
to know what to use to take off
the tar thai
up while driving on our roads.
Can any of you enna help

‘This makes me think ofa
cleaner I saw recently demon-
strated: T have ‘not used it per-

sonally but-watched as shee pol-
ish (the’ liquid type we often
have children polish their shoes
wath) was ‘deliberately painted
na small rug. The cleaner was
then sprayed on this stain
the suggested stren,

stand for 15 seconds, ip-
ed clean with a dry ‘cloth, The
job appeared well done and was
said to have numerous uses. I
wonder if road far ‘ds one?

All ate ie the word is
“close that door.” Now with
summer in the not-to-far distance

joorstops * aun-
weights snd dpa ‘Using la:
ers of colored salt. Any 4
Beas non-tippable, hottle

Geta Commerce Boots & Saddle Loan.

Or maybe you've got your eye on a special TV set. Or is it'a deep
freeze, a car or a sailboat? You name it. Whatever it is you want, a
Commerce Bankplan Loan can be tailored to your needs. Phone or
visit the Loan Department of any Commerce branch.

rors

Want to buy a horse?

‘2 doorstep; Be pergeme, oe bot.

y night saw this fam- weights, Ballast oan be’ either
force to attend the] coars

‘te dlatrlot the MAL
to, be a relaxin,

ojdnh il ao Mantel bing ata tim
tations, If] the depth

these: entht émall fry a F

over the family car, the
job of cleaning them algo. is P

it you so often pick},

apply,
. “| to. all regular. savings accounts
, | presently. enioyed by. the ‘bank's

e pickling, or fine. table
salt — Gependig c on the size of
the bottle, Color salt by, inixing
it Pi crushed | , blackboar

ers of perfume in
Aiea with ‘nourebold cement.
This ay ana aa ‘s full of

one Major Brigh of 102 Batalion
gave, i speech and said:

‘Boys, we ee over the top
this morning. fe are one man

r-| against 10 and one gun against

‘10, we have ‘to go over the
top and take the trench'no mat-

ter terwhat happens to us: God help

So, “over the top” we went.
After a hard fight we reached
the Becken trench. I and m:
comrade, Fred Pratt of 102 Bat-
talian, were the first to reach a
bunch of Germans who started
to bombard us between Boeken
trench and the German Com-
munication Trench,

situation was growing

hotter ‘ond hotter (the text is
haciits because of the age of
clippin; pat tig. was

| said sropard Sue aor or

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bart Text smiag Pratt

did so and I commenced to
number two company came into
the trench. He was covered with
blood.

“Sergeant, you had Detter
50 to the dressing station.” I

“Bat if 1 go, this trench will
be taken.” he returned,

jever id shout! the
trench. Tl look after it.” I told

“At foiir o’clock in the after-
noon, we received orders to re-

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treat. A lot of
id

t
the second day Col.
came in about two in the
noon and‘ said: “Boys, we are
covered by snipers, we must go
over ihe fp and we. must
straighten this line.”

Soover ‘the top we went

and captured another lot of
prisoners.
.. On the third day when the
Foll.was called, there were only
seventeen then left,
C. Bartholemu,
102nd_ Battalion
281 East Georgia St.
city (vancouver).

‘At the this incident
took palce, ne Pratt was one
month short of 21 years old. He
will be 71 years old May 10,

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Bennett Predicts Spring Federal Election

Premier. Ben-|
nett says there'll
be a federal fig,

lon next sp)
He. says that just
to stir-up

moment, grinned, said: “Let's

Bay we're well prepared for the
future.”

But our government at all] B:
levels seems to be gr 1g much
| than our, future, anata it’s

re more ensive
fin ee lected Lae oatae

sf tives abe never mean with the

"| taxpayer’s money,

agalust tho. Liberals ang ie

an ree
them out of office the
chance, they, get.

ertainly Mr. Pearson’ is a
great’ ‘one when it comes to ait-
ting on the fence. No one would
ever say he’s a man of bold and
feeze “Teaching and sudden deci-

known only £0 for a few days at a
. and then it changes. I
would think Canada has more
cabinet ministers’ per capita
than any other COUN in the
world,

number of Canadians who
eve rare overgoverned . 18
FR head Ni R, He

‘when it com:

es tolooking: after themselves,
overnments are’ notorious-| fae

ly extravagant with ‘non-essen-

Bluebell Mine
Wins J. T. Ryan
Trophy for (967
Cominco’s Bluebell Mine at
Riondel has been awarded the
regional John T. Ryan. mine
safety. trophy for the second con-

secutive ear, .the. company
learned week.

tale, but penny, inchers on es-
onl thal gervices, Th

that we could: very well do with-

out,
Anyway, Canada does not
Took $00.

ing ‘the ‘conservative for: it’s
sure there'll be no New Den-
ocratic Party or Social Credit
government in “the seat of fed-
eral authority,

Jobn emer one of the new
glamor boys of the Liberal i BON:
ernment, was deseribed in an
Ottawa story as a bachelor. He
is not, He has a wife and two
children.

The
made by the Canadian institute
of Mining and Metallurgy.

‘The award, given annually

t. to the metal ‘mining operation

in the B.C: Zukon ‘region iwi fs
@ lowest accident frequen
was won by the Bluebell with a 1
record of 7.98. accidents per el
ooo the mine employs 290 men
e e. emplo;
mp) tat aly

250,
The latest to join the grow-

em| 0 ees at the opera-
ploy: ‘in wit,

for:
began vonecaay naka
in
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a larg
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rn een ath eee
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é | set soror, on ar ara, since Oct-
ober 25, 1078, ithout a lost ti
accident.

dancin; er of
Princess Margaret in 2 which
set tongues ‘a-wagging.
‘He very well might make a
good Prime Minister of Canada.

Sollirk Students
Pick Nelson Man
For 67 President

eligible student voters went to

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One question often asked is

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There: are a number of. fabric
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Fabric conditioner only
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Bank of Commerce
"Increases Savings

Accotint Interest

Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce. will increase the in-
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44 per cent
paper| ie ay 1:

“The ‘new rate “will

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The increase from 3 per
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change in the interest rate on
regular savings accounts in al-
most five’ years. ge
“This increase has bee
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of the restrictions formerl:
iting, the bank's, activities.in the
? Mr. Greenwood ‘said:
ar ast week the bank announc-
ed that it also would introduce
a new e of savings: account,
without chequing privileges, on
which depositors will be paid
4 per cent interest.

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