Mrs. Jackson receives a notice from Ottawa about Ray's admission to No. Seven Casualty Clearing Station with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder. This clearing station was located near Ligny-St. Flochel approximately 24 kilometres west of Arras, France.
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.
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