Dear Son, I often sit and think of you, when
I am all alone.
For memory is the only friend that grief can
call its own:
Like ivy on the withered oak, when all things
else decay.
My love for you will keep green and never
fade way.
PTE. CARL AUGUSTUS BYRNES Pte. Carl Augustus Byrnes, enlisted May, 1916, with the 142nd Batt’n. Transferred to 18th Batt’n. Killed at Lens, Aug. 15, 1917. Age 20 years. From his bereaved Mother, Brothers and Sisters.“Killed in Action” He was killed by shell fire during an attack on the many enemy trenches at Lens.
War Diary of the 18th Battalion CEF 
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