Alex Woodworth of Ancaster, Ontario, was killed in action in June 1916. He was 22. Woodworth, a member of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, was wounded three times while manning a machine gun during a battle at Hill 62 in Belgium.

In a letter to Woodworth’s mother, a Private Ellis Scott described how his friend Alex “stopped hundreds of the advancing enemy” before his death. “With the gun boldly mounted on the parapet and his finger pressing the trigger, this brave son of yours and true friend of mine died with a bullet through his heart.” Woodworth’s name is inscribed on the Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium.

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