Friday, January 8, 1915. H. G. Bellinger and Norman Fry killed at Ypres.

Lance Corporal H. G. Bellinger, age 36, was killed at Ypres, the first Canadian soldier to be killed in action in World War One.

Bellinger was in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry had been a tailor in Ottawa. He left behind a wife and daughter.  He was hit by artillery fire, as was Lance Corporal Norman Fry, who would die shortly thereafter.

Lance Corporal Norman Fry was of the same regiment, but much more difficult to lean things about.  He had originally been in the Eastern Ontario Regiment.  His brother, who survived the war, was wounded on the same day.

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