The Death of Innes Doyle
On this date in 1919, Arthur Conan Doyle's brother, Innes, died of Spanish Influenza while working with his regiment to restore services in Belgium, which had been heavily damaged during the war. He was 45 years old and left behind a wife, Clara Schwensen Doyle, and two sons: John, 5, and Francis, 15 months.
Arthur had been devoted to his younger brother. As with nearly all of his loved ones, he believed he made repeated contact with Innes after his death, and this both comforted him and strengthened his faith. He told possibly skeptical readers of Memories and Adventures: "All fine-draw theories of the subconscious go to pieces before the plain statement of the intelligence: 'I am a spirit. I am Innes. I am your brother.
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