One mother's story - looking for her son

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I wrote a bit about Jane Adams in my last post. By the time her husband died in 1895, Jane had had twelve children. The oldest drowned in a well at 2 ½ years old, the next died at birth, a son died aged 13 from a riding accident, a daughter died at 20, and the third son, Charles, was killed in action during World War I. Young Charles would have been 13 when his father died and the oldest of the surviving children. He and his mother ran the property and took on a mail run until Charles enlisted in 1915. The photo shows a letter his mother wrote to the authorities trying to locate her son. It also shows his medals which would have been forwarded to her later. I can’t imagine they would have been much consolation.