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CAPTAIN ARTHUR BEAMER McCORMICK
26 September 1895-10 April 1917
[Welland Telegraph, 17 April 1917]
Lieut. Col. B.J. McCormick and Mrs. McCormick were notified from Ottawa yesterday that their son, Captain McCormick (Military Cross), was officially reported missing on April 10. Capt. McCormick was in the third battalion. April 10 was a fateful day for Welland men, Capt. Ross, Lieutenant Gordon and Capt. McCormick all meeting disaster on that day. Capt. McCormick was a Welland High School boy. He completed his education at Culver Military Academy and was just graduated when the war broke out. He at once joined the Canadian militia and was for a time attached to the frontier guard. He went overseas as a lieutenant with the 76th battalion under Col. Belson. He was offered a post and promotion by Col McCormick in the 213th, but replied that he preferred to win his promotions in the field. In this ambition he was successful. He also won the Military Cross, an honor shared only by the late Lieut. Gordon Crow, of the men who have gone to the war front from here.
This smiling face is that of Capt. Arthur B. McCormick who has been reported missing since April 10th. He is one of the youngest Welland officers who got to the trenches, but he has made a fine record in active service, and won the Military Cross. That he may have been taken prisoner is a possibility, in view of the German claim of the capture of a considerable body. Arthur’s legion of friends hope he may yet return to us.
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