Imagine how Mrs C. Cliff must have felt when she received this reply to an inquiry about her son, who had been reported wounded in World War I.
Your son, Private A.B. Cliff, is reported to have been admitted on October 9, 1917 to King George Military Hospital, London, with severe gunshot wounds, multiple,” it read.
“On receipt of any later cable messages, you will be promptly advised, but in the absence of further news, it may be assumed favourable progress is being maintained.”
Private Albert Cliff left a treasure trove of historic items from his service in World War I.
Alfred Beyer Cliff had enlisted less than a year earlier in Cowell in regional South Australia and had found his way to the war front in Ypres in Belgium, his son Milton explained.
Full article available at Maitland Mercury, March 1, 2015.
