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#814153 Pte. Donald Ross
187th Batt
C.E.F.
1898 ~ 1918
"Now I am going to cry out a mother’s sore heart for you for
some little news of my son’s death..." Mrs. Hugh Ross, Grafton Ontario 23 Oct. 1918
Grafton, Oct 23 1918
Dear friend Cormers;
My Friend Cormers is the way my Dear son Donald Ross spoke of you when he
wrote me the last letter he will ever write on August 30th. I do not want to
read the letter just now for if I do I shall not be able to finish this
letter to you. Now I am going to cry out a mother’s sore heart for you for
some little news of my son’s death. I have nothing but a cable and a letter
from a chaplain who mistakenly put another boy’s name and number in the
letter he wrote about my son’s death so you see it had very little interest
for me.
Please have his little personal effects sent to me they are as
nothing to anyone else but how precious they are to me his Mother, anything
that had been touched his dear hands...Ah Cormers may you never have that
longing to see anyone that I have to see my son. I am so lonely for him and
have been waiting so long and now, Oh now I must wait in vain and I loved him
so please do all you can in this for me and I shall give you a mother’s
blessing....Now I will close and I do hope that this awful long selfish
letter will not bore you too much and that you will try to send some little
news.
Mrs Hugh Ross
Donald Donald Ross WW1 Letters submitted by and Copyright Stephen Workman
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