A.T. Underhill Dies

SERGEANT UNDERHILL ANSWERS ROLL CALL – Cranbrook Man Dies at Tedworth Barracks, Dover – Death Casts Gloom Over City.

            Sergeant A.T. Underhill has answered the call!  On Tuesday J.A. Arnold, police magistrate, received a wire from Sergeant James Milne conveying the sad intelligence that A.T. Underhill had died at Tedworth Barracks, Dover.  The message was brief, simply announcing the sad tidings.  Mr. Underhill left Cranbrook with the first contingent only a few short months ago.  On that particular occasion mothers of only sons, some mere boys, debonair, full of the joy of living, who said good-bye with laughing eyes, are being called upon by the Father to drink an exceedingly bitter cup!  We are being as a people knit closer together as nothing could so closely knit us, in the fellowship of pain, and there are, as George Eliot nobly says, some secrets taught by pain which are worth the purchase.

            In the school room, in the churches, in the homes, everywhere! the cloud of war looms large!  To the unthinking its presence intrudes merely as an ugly spectre.  The death of A.T. Underhill brings the scene a little nearer home.  “Tubby” Underhill has answered roll call many miles from the lines of the Allies!