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Page consists of 4 news clippings published in June 1916 covering topics that include: new recruits, the Queen Mary, promotions of officers, and the death of a Canadian M. P. in Europe. Page also includes two photographs depicting soldiers casually posed with young women and captioned: "Lc-Cpl Cornish - Lc. Cpl. Cradock" and "'Baz' - 'Emmy.'"
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- [start of clipping] MORE MOTORBOATMEN GOING FROM CANADA Second Party of Recruits For British Auxiliary Patrol Will Leave Soon. The second party of Canadian recruits for the auxiliary motor boat patrol of the British navy will sail for England shortly. They will include sixteen sub-lieutenants and eight engineers, and will be under the command Louis Cory, son of the Deputy Minister of the Interior. Sub-Lieut. Cory a few years ago was a member of the Toronto University football team. One of the party will be E. D. K. Mathews, son of Mrs. Mathews, of 82 Somerset street, Ottawa. He goes as a sub-lieutenant. He is in the Electrical Standards Laboratory of the Inland Revenue Department. He is one of the best known and most capable of the younger school of motorboatmen in Ottawa, and is secretary of the Motor Boat Association of the Capital. Until He Returns. His launch is at the Rideau Aquatic Club and is of a similar type to the smaller class of launches that are now being built for the auxiliary patrol service of the navy. It has been raised out of the water and laid up until his return. Mr. Mathews has cruised extensively on local waters, and on the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario. He is regarded as one of the most capable motorboatmen in this part of the country. [end of clipping] [start of clipping] YOUNG OTTAWAN FIRED "QUEEN MARY" Gunner P. R. Odell, son of Mrs.W. s. Odell, of 67 Powell ave., having had the distinction of being one of the first Canadian soldiers to be entertained and shown over the now ill-fated cruiser Queen Mary, following his experience, wrote home to his mother a graphic description of this ocean monster. It was in last February that Gunner Odell was on furlough in Scotland, and while visiting some friends at a sea port town, he saw several war vessels lying in the harbor. Having expressed a wish to see them he was invited to go on board with his friends and was treated right royally by the officers. Writing home to his mother he said that a modern battleship is a wonder and the Queen Mary which sank a German cruiser off the Falkland Islands, sank two gunboats in an engagement off Heligoland and chased a German cruiser to port, carried about 1,000 men, making the complement slightly over sstrength. "She had," he said, "turbine engines, four propellers and every modern device known to modern naval warfare and her 1,000 horse power gave her greater power than the Lusitania." He fired the boilers, shovelling about half a ton of coal. In the torpedo room he was very interested looking at the tnbes, about22 inches in diameter and some 20 feet long. Being a gunner himself, the writer took a special delight in inspecting the large 13-inch gun, which he describes as being 60 feet long and about five feet at the breach. Although he understands them, he says that the machinery is too delicate and too complicated to explain. The shells stand about five feeet high and weigh about a ton. After a general inspection of the battleship, he and his friends had tea with the officers. [end of clipping] [start of clipping] FOUR 207TH OFFICERS ARE RAISED IN RANK Capt. Stewart and Lieuts. Plante, Gallagher and Owens Have Done Good Work For Battalion. Four more promotions of 207th officers are announced to-day. Capt. Stewart now takes the rank of major and Lieuts. Plante, Gallagher and Owens are raised to the rank of captain. These men have taken a keen and hearty interest in recruiting Ottawa's new battalion, and each have played a conspicuous part in gathering capable men from all parts of the Capital to fill the ranks of "MacLean's Athletes." This morning the 207th Battalion relieved the 77th Battalion guard doing duty in Hull. Lieut. Adams left on Saturday for Kingston, where he will take a signalling course. On Saturday night Sergt. Pritchard made a fine recruiting speech in the Regent Theatre, urging young men to come forward and serve their country. [end of clipping] [start of clipping] FIRST CANADIAN M. P. KILLED AT THE FRONT Col. "Harry" Baker, Who Represented Brome, Dies of Wounds Received in the Heavy Fighting on Friday---Popular With Both Parties. Col. G. H. Baker, whose death through wounds received in Friday's terrific attack on the Canadians, is announced this morning, is the first Canadian member of parliament to be killed at the front. "Harry" Baker, as he was affectionately known in the House of Commons, was beloved alike by Liberals and Conservatives. He was one of the younger group of men who came into parliament in 1911 as a supporter of Sir Robert Borden, defeating the Hon. Sydney Fisher in Brome. Although he came of a family whose name had long been one to conjure with in Canadian politics, he was modest and unassuming and rarely took part in the debates. But he was studious, painstaking and conscientious and was looked upon as one of the bright young members of the rank and file on the Conservative side. Previous to the war, he was Major of the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons. He went to the front as Colonel of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, and was probably the very finest example of that splendid type summed up in the phrase "an officer and a gentleman." [photograph in right column] COL. "HARRY" BAKER, M. P. [end of clipping] [annotation in ink]June 5 - 1916.
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