[Newspaper item announcing the death of Gunner Walter Lantz. Transcription provided by collection donor, date and publication name unknown.]

GUNNER LANTZ FIRST OF THE 98th SEIGE BATTERY TO FALL

Mr and Mrs Theodore J. Lantz Receive the
Sad News Today That their Son Walter
Has Been Killed in Action.
Gunner V. Burke of the 98th is Wounded.

The first of the soldiers who left here with the 98th Seige Battery to meet death on the battlefield, is Gunner Walter Lantz.

His father, Mr. Theodore J. Lantz, formerly of the Marine Service, has received a despatch announcing that his son, Gunner Lantz, was killed in action on July the 12th. No further particulars have yet come to hand.

Gunner Lantz joined the Battery some months before its departure in September. He was twenty-four years of age and besides his parents, one sister, Florence, and a brother Joe, are left of the family.

He was an admirable young man in every respect, and was most affectionately regarded, and much admired by all who knew him from his boyhood up to the threshold of his manhood. His comrades will be greatly grieved over this sad event but they, with our people, will feel that he has died a soldier's death - serving his God, his King and his country.

Thus, another of our dauntless Island sons has made the great sacrifice. Fitting tablets and monuments, after the war is over, will record their heroism and their patriotism.

To the grief-stricken parents, and family, we can only extend the profound sympathy of the whole community.

Thousands of parents in our province to-day have given their sons to the battle and they will all feel for, and share the grief of the inmates of the sorrow-stricken household.

Nothing too good can be said of the late Gunner Walter Lantz. He was a clever, energetic, splendid young man, and gallant soldier. He lies on the blood-stained fields of France, but his memory will be kept green in the hearts of his family, his comrades, his relatives, and the people generally, and his name should be inscribed upon the Roll of Honor of all the brave Island boys who fall in the world's greatest conflict.

LATER

Gunner Vernon Bourke, also of the 98th, is reported wounded. Gunner Bourke is a son of Mr. Patrick Bourke, of Charlottetown.