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THE LATE LIEUT. METHERAL

Among the many of Canada’s nobles[t?] young men who paid for victory with their lives, may be mentioned Lieut. T. Arthur Metheral, only son of Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Metheral, of Moosejaw, Sask. Arthur was born in Singhampton, Ont., July 21st, 1894, was educated at Collingwood public school, and later at Collegiate Institute, Weyburn, Sask., and was studying at the arts faculty, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., in September, 1916, when the call came which he could not resist. Joining the 196th Western University Battalion, he left Canada as a private in November of same year; received his promotion to Lieutenant in England in Feb. 1917, and on April 16th was transferred to the R.F.C. as an aerial gunner. After a few weeks of further training, he reached the western front on May 31st, and was attached to 45th Squadron, R.F.C. Five days     later, on June 5th, he was scouting over the German lines and was shot down. A lonely grave, somewhere in France, a lonely mother somewhere else, and the story is told. True to church and home teaching, Lieut. Metheral was warmly commended by comrades overseas for sterling Christian character and truthfulness. He leaves to mourn his loss a father and mother and five sisters, all of whom have the deepest sympathy of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.