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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, ipi6 



The third member of the British Col- 

 umbia Forest Service to be awarded 

 the Military Cross is Lieut. Edwin A. 

 Ketteringham, of the Norfolk Regt., 

 formerly a sergeant in the Canadian 

 Cyclist Corps, who at the outbreak of 

 hostilities was clerk in the Cranbrook 

 district office. The official records 

 state that "he entered the enemy's 

 trenches, gathered useful information, 

 inflicted considerable loss, and 

 brought back a wounded man under 

 fire." 



Corporal A. Reece, of the machine 

 gun section, 16th Battalion Canadian 

 Scottish, recently awarded the Military 

 Cross, has since died of wounds receiv- 

 ed in action. Both he and his elder 

 brother were members of the field 

 staff of the Provincial Forest Service, 

 and enlisted for active service in the 

 same battalion. 



the second time, while serving with the 

 48th Battalion 3rd Canadian Pioneers. 



Capt. John Brine Mitchell, 8th Lon- 

 don Regiment, Deputy District For- 

 ester of the Vancouver district, Rhodes 

 scholar, holder of the Military Cross, a 

 forester of the greatest promise, and a 

 man whose friendship was deeply cher- 

 ished by his associates, was killed in 

 action on Sept. 15th, "somewhere in 

 France." 



Pte. A. G. Malcolm, another member 

 of the field staff, has been wounded for 



Captain R. A. Spencer, of No. 1 

 Tunnelling Company, who in civil life 

 is on the staff of the Forest Products 

 Laboratories in Montreal, has won pro- 

 motion and the Military Cross. How 

 he earned the distinguishing decoration 

 is told in brief but expressive terms in 

 the official order. It says: 



"During five successive nights he pa- 

 trolled 'No Man's Land' in order to lo- 

 cate a mine- gallery, and then wrecked 

 it." 



Keeping the Iron Hot. 



The following editorial appeared in 

 "Industrial Canada," official organ of 

 the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion: 



"It is a good thing that we have a 

 Forestry Association in Canada to keep 

 alive the agitation for better forest pro- 

 tection. Already the alarm and in- 

 dignation aroused by last summer's 

 holocaust in Northern Ontario are dy- 

 ing down. The event has become his- 

 torical. It has passed from the imme- 

 diately impressive to the remotely ob- 

 servable. Unless the effect of the 

 tragfedy can be made to live in men's 



minds until the Legislature is compell- 

 ed by the strength of public opinion to 

 do something drastic to prevent a re- 

 currence of the catastrophe it will be 

 a national misfortune. The Forestry 

 Association is valiantly doing its part 

 to preserve the irhpression made imme- 

 diately after news of the fire was 

 flashed across the country. 



The latest reminder from the Asso- 

 ciation takes the form of an expression 

 of opinion by various experts on the 

 value of the permit plan of controlling 

 settlers' fires. The conclusions ar- 

 rived at are impressive and are well 

 worth emphasizing in these columns." 



