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Show oo YOUNGEST "VET' OF WAR, 13, RAN AWAY TO ENLIST (By International News Service) 8PR1NGFIBUD, Mass. The young-est young-est veteran in the world war has been found in Sprlngfi'ld. He Is Harold J. Burnette, son of Mr. and Mrs, Adolphus Burnette. He enlisted in the Canadian army at the ng of 1 I years and served until the end of the war Burnette ran away Horn home In October, 1917. He worked his wax to Montreal. November 17 1917, Burnettr vss accented and assigned to the First depot Imttnlion of the First Quebec Infantry After three months training train-ing his outfit went to England and then to France. Burnette was in the battles of Cam- , bral, Boulogne Woods and the big? fight thai smashed the Hlndenbur ' ilne. Then his outfit, "ent to Hel- i glum, where they remained unNl he i was sent into Germany w ith the ai n of occupation. Haily In UH the b.;t-j talion was returned to Canada and -demobilized. Burnette returned a seasoned eran. but only a little over ll years of aRe Birth certificates and army papers prove his story. |