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THE LATE PRIVATE CHARLES HOWARD OSBORNE
[Welland Telegraph, 30 May 1916]
This a picture of Charles H. Osborne who was wounded in action on April 23rd and who on the day following gave up his life for his country. He was born at High Barnett Hertfordshire, England, with his wife he came to Canada three years last March. For ten months he was employed by the Hamilton Sewer Pipe Company, then he came to Welland to join the furnace staff of the Union Carbide Co. He enlisted in Welland on the 24th of last July and left for Niagara Camp on July 27 to join the 76th battalion. He joined with the battalion on the first day of October. After a winter spent at Shorncliffe he had gone on the firing line only six weeks before he was wounded. He had two brothers and two nephews wearing the ? colors so the Osborne family was well represented.
Private Osborne leaves a widow in Welland and a handsome manly son aged three years. As a husband and father he was an exemplary man and the summons of death has left a great loss in the home that he adorned.
*Note: According to his military records Charles died on April 23rd, the same day he was wounded by shrapnel and is buried Vlamertinghe, Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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