This soldier was born in Napanee on May llth, 1890, and received his public school education there, and after leaving school he became apprenticed to the blacksmith trade in the shop of Mr. Ezra Pringle, of Napanee, and on the completion of his apprenticeship he went to Verona, where he was engaged in his trade at the time of his en- listment. He joined the 146th Battalion in the fall of 1916, and went overseas in February, 1917, and was soon thereafter sent to France with reinforcements for C Company of the 20th. He served during the early part of the summer, and on through the season's campaign until the 9th of August. On that date the 20th were carrying out a raiding operation against the enemy lines in the neighborhood of Cite St. Laurent, which is a suburb to the north-west of Lens, and it was during that operation that Private Albert Nathaniel Leary, No. 835560 was killed.(Reference: Walter S. (Walter Stevens) Herrington. The war work of the county of Lennox and Addington online)----------------------------------------------Than Leary is also known as Albert Nathaniel Leary.