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.
Friday, May 11, 2012
March 20, 1919 Woodcote Park, Epsom
Ray writes to his mother about her listing the family farm for sale for seventeen thousand dollars. He complains about hanging around the military convalescent hospital and debates the wisdom of just leaving, and forfeiting his pension and future army medical benefits.
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