Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 175
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[Page 175]
Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay
Edgecliff, Sydney.
16th Octr. 1917.
My dear Geoffrey,
Since my last letter to you on 26th Septr. we have got your long letter of 23rd August (No. 1 of the new series) with the copy of Wilkinson's letter to you, of 18th August, about dear Roger. It is beautiful to see how everyone who met Roger during that last tragic day of his life seems to have been struck with his cheerful heroism & forgetfulness of self in everything he said and did. What a comfort it must be to Eileen that her cablegram was read to him at the Dressing Station, & that at last he got a message from home after the long dreary lonely days he was in France without a message from anyone here, although goodness knows we had tried to send them.
Fr. Gartlan came to lunch with us a few days ago. He wanted to get material for a notice of Roger for the Alma Mater at Christmas, so we gave him extracts from the various letters we had got from different people at the Front, and also a copy of your own dear letter about your finding Roger at the Casualty Clearing Station that