Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 231
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fairly in the middle of things.
I see by the newspapers that John Hughes is speaking all over the place. John Mullins cleared out to Melbourne with Auntie Jeannie tonight for a fortnight's holiday, so he is not likely to be back in time to give much help. Jowett M.P. said the other day that if he found Jackada in Melbourne he would run him in for some speeches there, but me thinks he don't know his Jackada! Anyhow the GREAT FREE TRIP has begun & armed with their railway passes they have gone off joyously in the Melbourne Express, after sending us a tearful farewell by telephone. They showed us last night some photos they have got (I think from Cyril Maher) of poor Brendan's grave.
Poor Mrs. Langer Owen died on Friday last from heart failure brought on undoubtedly by overwork for the War. She absolutely wore herself to fiddlestrings over the Red Cross, & whatever funny ways she may have had at times she really & truly gave her life for the Cause.
We shall be cabling to you, probably tomorrow, to get Roger's name put in the Roll of Honour in the Catholic Who's Who for 1918. We should have written to Burns & Oates about it long ago, but it slipped my memory. Yesterday was the anniversary of Dear Roger's last landing in France on his way to the Front, and it made us all so sad to think of all the tragedy of his few days there. Even the knowledge that he has now been a year in Heaven cannot remove the old ache in the hearts of all of us who are left behind. Please God his sacrifice will not have been in vain.
It may interest you to know the official figures of Australians who have gone to the War in the A.I.F. I have just been looking them up for my