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From: "Daryl John Crabtree" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] WEST WIMMERA MAIL
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:16:43 +1000


January 25, 1918
What Our Friends Are Doing

Corporal J.T. CRUSE, son of Mr. and Mrs P. CRUSE, of Gymbowen, who was
severely wounded in the thigh and was three months out of action, has
returned to the trenches in France.

The following letter has been received by Robert BELL, formerly of Goroke,
from Captain Joseph H. HOPKINS, commanding officer of the late Private Alan
BELL-- I desire to express my deepest sympathy in the loss of your son. He
was in my company during the recent operations in Flanders on October 4th
and was killed by a shell and subsequently buried in an Australian cemetery
near Yonetike in Flanders. I personally regret the loss of good men such as
your son, for it was their bravery and devotion to duty that gave us the
success of which we are all so proud.

Daryl Crabtree
Gladstone
Qld
www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/





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