Fine morning, some snow storms. Get up about 11.0am meet M & B at 12.30 pm. Have dinner, visit Cathedral in the afternoon, also Bon- Service, very nice afternoon get back about 6.0 pm. Nice evening with M & B. Sleep at Hotel C d F. Good night.
Get up about 10.0 am. Have a walk round & meet MOON at 12.30. Dinner out, poor afternoon no company. See MERRY at night & spend a pleasant evening, have a good bed at the Hotel Chemin de Fer! Good sleep. Snow at night. Saw Red Rocket.
Got up about 10.0 am, nice morning, wash & clean up, visit 3rd Echelon till 12.30 pm. Have dinner at Café Heutres, very good. Walk round with C. MOON in afternoon & have a good look round the town. Visit * at night, nothing doing, get to 3rd Ech mess about 9.10 pm. Turn in about 12.0 am. Good day.
Arrive ROUEN about 1.0 pm Sunday & march to No 5 Gen Can Base Depot & hand over party. Good dinner, very much enjoyed. See GIBSON clean up & go out, meet BENNETT, MOON, ASHBOURNE, DOWNING & LANGSTON. Have a good night & then in about 12.30.
Lovely day. Saw Red Rocket. We go out in town & have a walk round. Visit cathedral, have a feed at Salvation Army Hut, very good. Get back in siding about 3.15 pm in time to hear a very good concert by YMCA ladies. Leave ABBEVILLE at 9.10 pm. Cpl REEDER misses the train & LCpl HARRIS is admitted to hospital. Not such a cold night as we have a carriage.
Cold morning fine but dull, camp soon very muddy after the frost. A Coy find camp pitching fatigue for some other regt. 15 men of D Coy on tent colouring. Pde at 3.30 pm with Can draft & march to Aubigny Station to catch 5.0 pm train. Train leaves at 9.30 pm. We have a very cold journey in cattle trucks & get very little sleep. Arrive ABBEVILLE about 8.0 am & have to stay there all day expecting to move at 6.30 pm.
Fine morning but very dirty. I have my ankle painted & bandaged. We send 1 off & 50 men of B Coy to LIGNY & 1 off & 60 men of D Coy to PENIN. Very cold night, sharp white frost, not much sleep.
Wet morning. Bttn parades ready to move at 9.0 am & we march to SAVY via BERLENCOURT-AMBRINES very hard march & I feel done up when I get in, having my left ankle swollen with rheumatism or something. Arrive SAVY about 2.10 pm go under canvas, very bad camp & heaps of mud. Concert given by 13 Sqdn RFC at night to 250 of our men, very good. Not much sleep, rain & wind.
Wet morning, fine later. Bttn parades for march 10.10 am. DBCA. Very bad roads. March via BONNIERES-FREVENT to REBREUVE arriving about 3.0pm rather hard march, bad roads. We have a very good evening, English beer & a nice warm room. Saw C.S.M. MACKINTOSH, Sgnt ‘D’ MERTON & Sgnt WESTMACOTT 11th Bttn.
Wet morning & very miserable. Corps do training. We get orders for move tomorrow. Draft of 30 arrive with Capt. H. who looks very poorly. Wet nearly all day, roads in a very bad state.