The Windsor Record of a recent date refers at length to the death in action on June 4th, in the Ypres fight of Lieut. Edward Blake Allan, of the 16th Canadian Scottish.

He was a son of the late Henry W. Allan, of Port Rowan, at one time a prominent citizen of this county, afterwards member of the House of Commons for South Essex.

Lieut. Allan's mother was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Gibson. She was a sister of Messrs. William and D. Z. Gibson, lumber merchants of this county, and of Sir John Gibson of Hamilton.

When the war broke out, Allan, familiarly known in Windsor as "Curley," was in Mexico. He came to Canada at once, but arrived too late to join the first Canadian Expeditionary force.

Returning to Windsor from Quebec, he endeavored to get attached as an officer in a Western Ontario battalion, but failed, although he was a qualified lieutenant and a veteran of two South African campaigns.

Paying his own way, he went to England, and as there were more officers in the first contingent than needed, he was given the option of either enlisting as a private or waiting for the next battalions to arrive. He chose the former course and was soon on active service in Belgium and France.

As a private in the Canadian Divisional Ammunition Corps. he distinguished himself and recklessly faced death time after time in bringing up supplies to the men in the front line who were holding the trenches in the face of an unprecedented bombardment and clouds of asphyxiating gas.

He won his promotion to a lieutenancy in the 16th Canadian Scottish following the great attempt of the Germans to break through the British lines and capture Calais.

The Record concludes:
"Although he spent but short periods at long intervals in Windsor, Allan was one of the most popular young men in the city and had a wide circle of acquaintances, who heard the report of his death with deep regret."