From the News

Dated: February 6, 1915

Banff's Honoured Dead.

Killed in Action. -- Jan. 26, Captain Frederick Fitzgerald, Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry.  Next of kin, Mrs. Gamle [Gamble], care of commissioner, Agra, India.

Heading the Canadian Honour Roll, in the daily papers, the above brief paragraph tells how one Banff man did his duty for king and country.  

Many Banffites will remember Fitzgerald, who made his home in this town for the past two summers.  He worked here as a day labourer, being employed by the government, but those who knew him best recognized the gentleman born and bred under the guise of the working man.

Fitzgerald came of a good Irish family and had seen service in India and Africa.  While here, where his worth was estimated by his ability to handle a pick and shovel, he may have been out of place and not properly appreciated.

The military authorities, however, recognized his worth as evidenced by his rapid advance since enlisting and Calgary to the rank of lieutenant and then captain.  And now that his life has been freely given for his country, his name on the honour roll wil lbe revered by all true patriots, and to those who knew him personally will remain the memory of a light hearted, companionable and true friend.

Such men as Frederick Fitzgerald in these troublous [sic] times, can be ill spared.  It is men like him who have made the empire what it is, and where danger threatens they are ever found at the front.