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COOK, Charles - from Flanders Field, 25.3.1918.

Some thoughts from Flanders Field, written on two note book pages by Charles James Cook, commences "It is six years today since I followed My Dear Wife to Her Last resting Place. And as I sit in my Dug-out on the battle field at Belgium and ponder over my passed life my mind like a flash of lightning goes over the seas to the Sunny Shores of Australia. When I had my Dear Wife and children by my side and a home with a family altar. How we would sing and kneel and pray together morning noon and night that the Great God of all would guide and lead us alright. For some reason we cannot tell. But in his wisdom he saw fit to suddenly let the death angel take from our side our Dear Mother and Wife and as my mind flashes over the seas me thinks I see the Grave where her and her baby lays. And we that she has left behind are scattered about like the broad cast seed. I on the battle-fields of Belgium, Frank on the battle-fields of France, Louisa in Servance in Perth, Archie in Servance at Midland Junction, George in Collingwood Victoria, Ellen in the girls Home Collie W.A.,Tommie and Arthur in No. 2 Boys Home Collie."

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