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~ LIEUTENANT JOHN ROWAND GEDDES’V and Mrs. Alex Geddes of Arran Tp. received word that their son, Lieut. John R.. of the Royal Fly- ing Corps, had been killed in France. They had just received a letter from him and dated October let, that he was leaving for France in his plane. Last week Mr. The next news was a cablegram that he had been Killed. been in France not more than a week. Apparently he had Lieut. Geddes was using one of the light, swift fighting planes capable of travelling at 130 miles an hour and could drop at the rate of 300 miles an hour. Lieut. Geddes had been wounded in a previous encounter in France, had recovered and had taken a special course in England. Just before he wrote his last letter he said he had been run into by an auto but not hurt very much. The announcement of his death gave no particulars. Lieut. John R. Geddes was born Sept. 15, lBQfl. He got his first educaâ€" tion in Gowanlock school, then in Port Elgin High School, where. as a young lad, he established a record for having secured his matriculation, under Principal Bald, in two years. Being too back to the farm until he was old enough Stratford, Then he taught near Woodstock, enlisting While in England, he took No finer type of young secured his teachers standing up a course in liberty and justice. than Christian gentleman. young for Normal school, he went to go to Normal. Then he went to and taught first at Sang's school. in September 1915 in the 71st. the Royal Flying Corps. man has given up his life in this great war, for John R. Geddes . A leader of young men in all the higher things of He was clever, ambitious and a life, and a man of fine athletic training. Acknowledgment â€" copied from a clipping from the Port Elgin Times.