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after the war. He left in 1926 for his new field at

Keremeos in the Southern Okanagan. Colwell

went overseas early in the war as a private and later

was made chaplain of the “2nd Canadian Mounted

Rifles.” He was awarded the Military Cross for

conspicuous and unfailing bravery under fire. The

first time I met Colwell was in front of Avion on the

Lens sector. I was then with the Cameron High-

landers. We had been in the line for a fortnight and
were about to move out, being relieved by the
2nd C.M.R.’s. I was gathering up my equipment
in the dug-out when down the steps and into the
candlelight there came a Canadian officer who asked
me if he could get himself a bunk there. I said,
“Yes, you can have mine. You should have one
good sleep in it at least. I feel as if I had given the
lice all they could take, so they should not bother
you the first night.’ We had a pleasant, ten-
minute, get-acquainted chat and then I had to clear
out. I met him several times afterwards in France,
and then not again until I found him in Alert Bay in
the winter of 1920-21. He was still ‘‘carrying on”
careless, almost too careless, about personal danger
or suffering so long as he could help “the other
fellow” and, if possible, win him for Christ. One
man there said to me, ‘‘Colwell goes out in storms
that no other fellow here will tackle. He sure is a

nervy man.”

With the Broadcaster on the West Coast. On
the far west coast of Vancouver Island, working