Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-21 | Page 28 | Receives News of His Nephew's Death

IEUTENANT ROBERT , LESLIE CARPENTER, killed in action on the Flanders Flan-ders front while fighting for Great Britain. 1fTWMIliU.il III 111111 iMWWWg 1 r s i i y 1 " JM! I w ; x ' l ! - - J 8 J t ; ' i RECEIVES NEWS OF HIS lEFIW'S DEATH George E. Carpenter of This City Shocked by Newspaper News-paper Announcement, Since the beginning of the European war George E. Carpenter has been receiving re-ceiving monthly letters from his nephew, Lieutenant Eobert Leslie Carpenter, an officer in the British army, on active duty on the Flanders front. Several of these letters have been published in The Tribune. The last one told of the fighting fight-ing in the great drive on the west in the vicinity of Loos. Mr. Carpenter yesterday looked for a letter from his nephew.- It didn't come. Instead a copy oi the London Morning 1 Post was received. A brief announcement announce-ment was marked. Here is the announcement: announce-ment: Carpenter, Lieutenant R. L., Seventeenth Sev-enteenth London Eegiment Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Robert Leslie Carpenter, Seventeenth Sev-enteenth battalion (Poplar and . Stepney Rifles), London regiment (killed in action on October 26 in France), was aged 20, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carpenter of Barrowgate-road, Chisuick. He . joined the regiment from the O. T. C. (Whitgift school) in June, 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered volun-teered for active service. He was promoted lieutenant in June last. The letters of the brave, care-free young Briton who was fighting for his country in the trenches in France, form chapters of an interesting narrative. The formal announcement in the big London daily is the concluding chapter of the story the tragic life story that is doubt-leys doubt-leys also the story of hundreds of thousands thou-sands of other brave young soldiers in all of the armies engaged in the titanic struggle.