[Editor’s note: Provided by collection donor as transcription only.]

July 25th, 1921.
Colonel H. G. Osborne,
Secretary of the Imperial War Graves
Commission in Canada,
Ottawa,
Ontario

Dear Sir:

My brother, W. Roy Gullen, 772521 attached to the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division was reported missing on or about the 3rd of May, 1917, after the Battle of Fresnoy, France and on the 22nd of May, 1918 officially reported (missing) presumed to have died at the Fresnoy engagements.

I have notice certain reports stating that graves or monuments have been erected in honour of the soldiers killed in Action, where no trace of their identification has been found. I desire to know if any mark has been erected in memory of my brother.

If you are unable to furnish me with this information would you kindly advise me with whom to communicate in order to ascertain what cemeteries would be near this engagement. If no mark has been erected, I wish to erect a small mark in a suitable spot in France.

Thanking you in advance, I am,

Yours very truly,
[signature of Frank Gullen]
FCG/EJ