at h< in Halifax, England and with the 25th Battalion. E was wounded at Passchendale in November, 1918 and was invalided hen in February 1919, serving with the N.S. Depot Battalion until the en of the war; and eventually commanded the 18th Highland Brigade vi! the rank of Colonel. of On his return to Prince Edward Island he ranched foxes, and ff ganized the Charlottetown Fur Sales, and served as manager until Aw * ust, 1940 when he was called again to active army service. He was poftf to No. 60 Army Basic Training Centre in Yarmouth, N.S. and contin.if25 there until his retirement in 1946, except for three months overseas in 1943. In 1945 he unsuccessfully contested federal seat of Yarmouth-Stad burne-Claire. During 1946 he was Secretary - Manager of the Dunk Rivtri Dairying Co . in Bedeque , Bs In February, 1947 he was appointed manager of Cosmos ImperL * Mills, Ltd. in Yarmouth . In 1957 was made Resident Director and coi tinued in that office until retirement in 1968. In that year he return??* to Prince Edward Island and is now living in Charlottetown . Harold K. Howatt The following account was written by Harold Howatt on his se^ vice in the Army during World War I. Mr. Howatt kept a diary fWa, the time he left Charlottetown in 1916 until he returned in 1919; and with the aid of this diary was able to compile this concise account ■ his term of duty: In May, 1916, I enlisted in the 5th Siege Battery which had be' authorized by the war department in the spring of that year, headqua? J ters to be in Charlottetown . The officers were: Commanding Offi<v Major Peake , Captain Bagnall and Lieutenants Prowse, Messervy, Murp '7 and Peake- The strength of the battery was one hundred and fifty (W' I a e ie 20