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Show JBLAIira WALL, Ealt Lake and . Ogden man, who was killed in action with Canadian army on British Brit-ish front in Franco August 10 miil0uiiiiiii I" " ini'i'i'iii i 11 "' ,. 'in f i f I H-y I 1 ' if SILT LAKE M IS Mi FRANCE J. Blaine Wall, Member of Canadian Army, Killed on August 10. Xcws was received in Ogdcn yesterday yester-day of the death of J. Blaine Wail of .Salt Lake, member of the Seventy-second Canadian battalion. Mr. Wall was killed in action Anfrust 70 on the British Brit-ish front in I-'ran.-c. The story of Mr. Wall's surreme sacrifice sac-rifice for democracy is a' striking example ex-ample of determination to be of use to the cause, despite of what at first seemed insu lorablc obstacles. Rjectej by the Amerieau surgeons because of a sligiit (iefoct of one eye. he enlisted in the Canadian army. This also was the ra?e of his chum," Harry Kolur? of Opien. with him until his death. Both men were on a e?rl in the convoy of the toopship Tu-eania, and the torpedo tvbieh sank the ill-fated steamship as aimed at and narrowly missed their vesseL Mr. Wall was a son of Mr. and Mr?. James Wall, formerly of Ug-len and now residing at lierkeley. ( al." lie was a brother ot ("i. ii. Wall, pviperiutendent of the ice department of the I'aoific Fruit Kxpres at Ofcden. Mr. Wall, who was born and reared at Ogden, was a member of Ogden lodge No. 71'.', Benevolent Benev-olent and F'roteetivc Order of KIk?. He was US years old. During his n'sidenoe of three years at Salt Lake previous to his enlii menu Mr. Wall was connected with the Va-eifie Va-eifie Kmit Kxpress and later with the K van KTui t company. He left, w th Mr. Rollins, for Victoria. R ('.. and entered en-tered the army the week before Christmas Christ-mas last. In a letter home, written just before he was killed. Mr. Wall describes the life at the front. ' ' Wc are a happy buiieh," he said. 'There are peenty-five peenty-five of ns here, and when off duty and not asleep we enjoy Hfo immensely. Now, for instafce, the bunch is singing seventy-four different songs. .1. S. Johnson of Tooele. Vtnh, with the Canadian expeditionary force in. V'rance, is report ed onn-icl. |