Harry James Smith

He was killed in a traffic collision in British Columbia while collecting peat moss for its use in surgical dressings.

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[1] In 1917, after study with the Canadian engineer John Bonsall Porter, he began his own work with sphagnum ("peat") moss.

During the summer his collecting and preparing of the moss was done under the auspices of the National Surgical Dressings Committee of New York; but in December, 1917, he received his brevet from the American Red Cross, and late in February he went to Seattle to investigate the supply of moss in the Northwest and to help in organizing the work.

After two weeks, he went to British Columbia to arrange for a shipment of moss for the Canadian Red Cross, and it was there, on March 16, 1918, near Murrayville, that he was killed in a train and automobile collision.