Letter of sympathy from Chaplain Wm C Stanesby to Joseph Bayle's mother

• January 5, 2018 18:46:29 Thomas A. Lingner

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  29th Casualty Clearing Station

  B.E.F.

  March 21st, 1916.

  
  

  Dear Mrs. Bayle,

    I regret very much to tell you that your son Joseph

  passed away quite peacefully in the Clearing Station to-day. He

  was conscious almost to the last, and joined with me in saying the

  last prayers very earnestly - while he told me to give you his

  dearest love and say that he thought of you continually. He received

  the tenderest care from both the Doctors and Nurses here, and

  everything that could be done for him - was done.

    He will be buried in a beautiful cemetery here, in

  consecrated ground, and his funeral will be attended by the Officers

  and men of this Unit, and there will be full Military honours.

    His grave will be marked by two crosses, one at the head

  and the other at the foot, both bearing the name, his regiment and the

  date of his death.

    Please accept my deepest sympathy with you in your great

  loss - but if anything can help you at such a time it will be the

  thought that having been found faithful unto death, he has received

  the crown of life. He died a true soldier of his country and of God.

  
  

  Yours sincerely.

  Wm. C. Stanesby.

  
  

  Chaplin.

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