A Keen Soldier

The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle

Author Andrew Clark

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When award-winning journalist Andrew Clark found the file on Harold Joseph Pringle, he uncovered a Canadian tragedy that had lain buried for fifty years. This extraordinary story of the last soldier to be executed by the Canadian military -- likely wrongfully -- gives life to the forgotten casualties of war and brings their honour home at last.

Harold Pringle was underage when the Second World War broke out, eager to leave quiet Flinton, Ontario, to serve by his father’s side. But few who volunteered to fight “the good fight” realized what horror lay ahead; soon Pringle found himself in Italy, fighting on the bloody “Hitler Line,” where two-thirds of his company were killed. Shell-shocked, he embarked on a tragic, final course…

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January 13, 2004

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Andrew Clark became Canada's first full-time comedy critic with his column in Toronto's eye Weekly. Clark is a regular contributor to The Financial Post, Saturday Night and CBC Radio's "Definitely Not the Opera."