I wonder if he was a survivor of Ypres also, as I know many Canadianicon units were cycled through there. Sad to think he wrote this more than a century ago, and that no one today knows how he actually died. I've done enough reading to know that most snipers who were detected were either countersniped, or a machine gun was trained on suspected hides and then a burst was fired, or an arty strike was called in. Or, he was just an unlucky victim of the tremendous number of random bullets floating around almost constantly, or a barrage, or perhaps he was on patrol or with his unit going over the top when he got it. WWI seemed to be the randomest of wars when it came to getting killed.