This is Ray's first letter to his older brother Ernie who was running the family farm in Teeswater. He asks him to bring his fiancee (and later his wife) Norma Skilling out to see him.
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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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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