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I herewith append statement of information concern- ing letter received by you from my wife forwarded by the Under Secretary of State.
I left England on September 28th, 1917, for active service, and returned home again on July 9th, 1919, and was demobilised. My wife was then staying at my mother's house, Bay Tree House, Wanstead, Essex. I at once noticed that my wife was very strange in her manner. She was then occupying a bedroom with my niece, and continued to do so until July 25th refusing to share one with me.
On July 25th we went to Inverness to pay a visit to my brother, arriving there on 27th. About August 10th my wife complained of feeling unwell and went to bed early.
During the night of August 12th she complained of severe pains in the stomach and I called in Dr. Kerr next morn- ing, who saw her alone at my wife's request. On August 14th I woke up at 5.30 a.m. and found she was not in the room. I looked for her and found her in the bath-room in great pain; she seemed to be on the point of collapse. I immediately woke my sister-in- law, and went for doctor. He could not be found until about 9 o'clock a.m., when he arrived bringing a bag of instruments. My wife was then unconscious, and he gave her some brandy, having great difficulty in making her take it. He at once attended her, requested my sister-in-law and myself to help him. My wife was conscious then, and motioned me to leave the room, which I did. About twenty minutes later the doctor came downstairs and inform- ed me that she had had a miscarriage, and that he had only arrived just in time to save her life. I was very surprised to hear of the miscarriage which I had no reason to expect as my
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