Item 02: Nellie Clark correspondence, 29 September 1916- 15 August 1918 - Page 16

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Sydney
Y.M.C.A.
Australian Expeditionary Forces

14.5.1917

L. Cpl. Maurer
No. 1 Hut
No. 4 A.G.H.
Randwick

Dear Miss Clark

Having just returned from leave have just received your letter re Cpl. Gordon. I am very sorry to say that I can tell you very little about how he received his wounds as I was wounded at the end of July & he was going along well when I left the lines & it was in Hospital in England when I heard he was badly wounded & learned later that he had died of his wounds. I can only say how sorry I was when I heard of his death because a finer lad never lived than poor Gordon & he was thought the world of by all the boys in the Bombers, especially those under his command. I have asked