Norfolk Casualties

There have been a number of casualties reported during the week which are of local concern. 
To be the first member of the 133rd to pay the supreme price of his life lost in action has fallen to the lot of Private James August [sic] Larsson, who enlisted from Houghton, and whose mother resides in that township 
at the village of Cultus.
 
 
 
 

PTE. ALBERT LARSSON
First 133rd Man to be Killed in Action, 
March 1st, 1917

Eighteen years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Larsson, of Cultus, Houghton Township, where the father carried on blacksmithing for eleven years. Pte. Albert Larsson was born in Newmarket, Ont. The father is by birth a Dane, but came to Canada as an infant.