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Mrs Elisa Jackson 1525 Queen St. W. Ontario Toronto Canada Principal Chaplains Dept Boulogne Base B.E.F. France 14th Oct. 1916 Dear Mrs Jackson Your Son, Moore Jackson,
is in no 3 Canadian Hospital here & He asked
me to notify you of this fact. I am sorry to say
that he is pretty badly wounded & has been
dangerously ill ever since his coming here
I see him almost every day & so far as I can
judge he is getting a little better & to-day he
told me that he was in hopes of making a pretty
good recovery. He is in fairly good spirits,
considering the circumstances & I am hopeful that
his naturally cheery disposition & good healthy
constitution may - under the good Providence of God -
spare him return to you & his home. You
may rest assured that everything will be done to
assure this & both Doctors & Nurses are most
attentive to him as he is such a nice boy & a
general favourite with them all. He asked me to tell you that he had made a mistake
in the last letter to you in saying that Charlie
Walt had been killed. This is not so as your boy
saw him since he wrote you & so far as he knows at
present he is alive & well. Hoping to have better news for you soon Sincerely Yours . Robt Kelso
Regt. Chaplain.
Letter from Rev Robert Kelso, Principal Chaplain's Dept, Bologne Base, B.E.F. France,
to Mrs Jackson's whose son, Moore, died in a Canadian Hospital. Reverend Kelso writes
that he was badly wounded, but was in good spirits and was hopeful of making a recovery
to return home. Kelso writes that he saw Moore daily and everything possible was being
done for him. He also corrects and error from a previous letter: Charlie Walt, which
he wrote was dead, was in fact, alive and well and not wounded.