[Editor’s note: Posted date added for reading continuity purposes only. Content of the undated message indicates it was presumably written in or after June 1917.]

Thurs. pm.

Dear Mrs Gullen:-

A sad message has just come over the wire, May you be given strength to bear it!

Mrs Partridge just phoned that Mr. Gullen has been killed in action

In deepest sympathy
Alzina Callan