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Date: August 1st 1916
To
Mr. Mackenzie
From
Marguerite Kinloch
Letter

24 York St.
Bamer St
London. W.
1st Aug. '16.

Dear Mr. Mackenzie,

Thank you so much for your very kind letter. I was stunned at first but now I realize that Fran was splendid & that is really all that matters - he was the best Bomber in the Dept. He was hit in the head by a sniper & killed instantly, he did not suffer - he was just getting his commission in the R.F.[?] of the Imperial Army - "he is not dead at all, dead tho' the house of him seems," just gone to work in another sphere - He was a good boy, & never gave me a momments' anxiety - & so I have a beautiful memory of him - & I have had dozens of letters, all speaking in the highest terms of him. His earliest training lay in your hands, & I must thank you, for the large part you played in the formation of his character, for character is really all that matters - all we take over with us at the last. It will be very nice to have a memorial, an example to all those in years to come of the great principle - "Those you lose their lives shall find them" Fran was just starting his fourth & last year in the Yarrow Shops at Victoria B.C. he was a very fine mechanic.

Again thanking you & Mrs Mackenzie for your very kind thought of me in my great grief & with kindest regards,

Very Sincerely,

Marguerite Kinloch

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