Item 03: James I. Marshall diary, 24 November-12 December 1916 - Page 23

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getting on so well when I left, after what he had been through, so I left my chum, promising to come back in the morning.

It was a great shock when I got there to hear that they had just received a letter to say he was dead, with several other very kind letters from different nurses at the home. I was glad I hade gone there as it was such a relief to them to know that he had died happily and had had the best of care and attention all along.

It was all the greater shock to me as I had been waiting till I had seen his mother before writing to him and sending him some things I had bought which I thought might interest him.