My wife's grandfather was injured at Ypres, and was transferred to a hospital in Etaples, France, where he died in February 1917. This is the letter his wife received from his commanding officer:

A letter was also received from one of the chaplains, dated 22 February 1918, from No.4 General Hospital., B.E.F. France:

"I would like to add a few words of very sincere sympathy with you in your great loss. When I saw him he was brave and cheerful and ready to trust himself to the care of our Father God. You were in his thoughts and he hoped to be able to return to you, but it was not to be. He is being buried in our military cemetery at 'Etaples - a well kept place where the bodies of many of our brave soldiers have been lain to rest.

You have made a great and costly gifty to our common cause and I pray that the God of all Comfort may sustain and keep you all in this very heavy sorrow."