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.
September 22, 1918 East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, England
A volunteer writes to Ray's mother as he is "helpless with his right arm and hand". She adds a heartfelt plea in a post script: " May God soon end this awful war for we anxious mothers."
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