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.
Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment and Returned Soldiers' Insurance February 12, 1920
Ray receives another letter instructing him to report to his brother Ernie's garage in Teeswater. He also seems to have sent in the application for Returned Soldiers' Insurance offered by the Canadian government.
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