Harold Lothrop Borden
1876–1900 (age 24)
Biography
Lieutenant Harold Lothrop Borden (23 May 1876 – 16 July 1900) was from Canning, Nova Scotia, and was the only son of Canada's Minister of Defence and Militia, Sir Frederick Borden, and was related to the future Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Robert Borden. Serving in the Royal Canadian Dragoons, he became the most famous Canadian casualty of the Second Boer War. Queen Victoria asked F. W. Borden for a photograph of his son, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier praised his services, tributes arrived from across Canada, and in his home town a monument (by Hamilton MacCarthy) was erected to his memory.