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 writes his mother from Witley Camp where he has been doing Machine Gun training. With 92% in his exam, he is now no.2 in the gun crew of the Teeswater Platoon.
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