Timeline for Edward Ray Jackson

• Born November 21, 1897 at Spring Creek Mill and Farm,12th Concession, Amabel Township, Bruce County, Ontario
• Attends 1 room school, SS #6 on Spring Creek Road
• Family moves to grandfather Robert Barbour's 210 acre farm 2 miles south of Teeswater, Culross Township, Huron County, Ontario in 1908 when Ray is10
• Ray's father dies suddenly in 1912 when Ray is 14
• Finishes Primary and Secondary School in Teeswater by 1916
• World War 1 is declared August 1914 
• December 2, 1915 160^th Over-Seas Battalion formed, headquarters' armories in Walkerton, ON
• Ray enlists Canadian Expeditionary Forces March 23, 1916 age 17
•  Becomes part of Company B ( from Chesley, Tara, Hepworth and Teeswater) 160^th Bruce  Battalion
•  June 3, 1916 the entire 160th Battalion marches from Walkerton to Chesley
• June 4, 1916 160th officially receives its Regimental Colours
• Training in Walkerton
• June - October 1916 Training in London ON Carling Heights Camp
• October 17, 1916 Battalion leaves for Halifax by train
• October 18, 1916 Sails from Halifax aboard 'The Metagama '
• October 27, 1916 Arrives Liverpool
• Witley Camp, Surrey
• 8 Nov 1916 Marches 7 miles to Bramshott Camp
•  End of November 1916 – end of January 1917 is in quarantine at Bramshott Camp
• January 2, 1917 Aldershot Isolation Hospital. Ray has mumps
• By 29 January, 1917 out of quarantine at Bramshott Camp
• Machine gun training earns 92% at Witley Camp
• To end of August 1917, at Witley, still bored and waiting to go to France
• August 29, 1917 Canada passed the Military Service Act
•  February 28, 1918 160^th Battalion leaves for France
• Ray joins 1st Battalion C.E.F.
• Billeted at a farm “somewhere in France”
•  Ray’s older brother Bert conscripted May 22,, 1918 and sent to London Ontario training camp
•  Sometime between 23 – 30 August 1918 Ray is sent to the front
• Wounded in action near Arras on morning of August 30, 1918 with GSW in right shoulder
• He falls into a bomb crater and lies there for 8 hours
• August 30, 1918 evacuated to No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station in Ligny-St.-Flochel where he is operated on twice
• September 2, 1918 taken to No. 32 Casualty Clearing Station at Lozinghem where wound was cleaned out
• September 7, 1918 taken to East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, England
• January 27, 1919 transfered to Woodcote Convalescent Hospital, Epsom and put on massage and remedial gymnastics treatment
• July 1919 invalided to North America on the Hospital Ship SS Essequibo
• arrived 25 July 1919