Percy Andrew Lloyd Harden of Knowlton, Quebec enlisted January 19, 1916 and was killed in action just over a year later. The private was killed on August 15, 1917, at Hill 70 while serving with the 24th Battalion.

A friend of Harden wrote a letter to the family explaining how he died when they were attacking German trenches. “Him and I were standing in the trench together pointing at some Germans, who were about 100 yards from us, one of them shot at us and caught Percy through the head,” he wrote. “Please do not worry because he did not suffer at all, as soon as night came on I buried Percy and turned all his papers etc into hdqts.”

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