Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson who joined the 160th Bruce Battalion of the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Forces in 1916, 8 months before his 18th birthday. He served as a gunner in France with the 1st Battalion of the 1st Canadian Division under Marshal Ferdinand Foch and was wounded in action at Arras on August 30, 1918.
Ray tells his mother they expect to leave for overseas at the end of October and that Gen. Lessard said that the 160th were the best Battalion he had seen since the 18th and that they should be sent to France as a unit.
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