Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 495
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interest in other people's children grows correspondingly fainter & fainter. I told George that the world had not come to an end simply because he had had a row with his wife, but that Mother & I proposed to keep very clear of entanglements with his wife's relations on the subject.
I met Sandy Jaques yesterday. Poor boy, he is a bit of a wreck. His right hand is smashed up, & one of his legs has been amputated, but he was very cheery & bright. He said he was with you near Bethune for four days a year or so ago, when he was learning to spot for his battery.
Clement Rennie, a lieutenant in the R.F.C. at Salonika, was killed on the 16th, & Mother & I have just written to his father & mother. Cyril was killed ( I think in France) about a year ago.
Norman McGhie, who has had a pretty badly damaged arm for a good while, was married last week to a Miss Allen at North Sydney, & Brendan Gavan Duffy was his best man. His wife is a Catholic, & they were married in her father's house by a priest. McGhie is practising at the bar here. Brendan Gavan Duffy is practising as a solicitor in the Riverina somewhere. Did I tell you that Judge Gavan Duffy, his father, spoke to me about a partnership for him in H. & H.! I told him that I was waiting for you & Bryan if you cared to take up the work after the war.
I think Mother is sending you a cutting about the newly formed association of the "Sons of St Patrick", who have John Meagher as President, P.S. Cleary & Tighe Ryan as secretaries, & Maurice O'Reilly (of St John's) as one of their distinguished members.