Fine day. Coys do training.
Cross country race in the afternoon 12 men per coy [company]
Result B, D, C
A Coy didn’t finish.
Fine day. Coys do training.
Cross country race in the afternoon 12 men per coy [company]
Result B, D, C
A Coy didn’t finish.
Dull day. Coys do training. We find 150 men & 6 off [officers] for digging as on 25th go by lorry to Feuchy.
Dull miserable day.
Coys have inspections & clear up.
Dull day with rain & wind. Coys [Companies] bathing & find working parties. Bttn [Battalion] as strong as possible, pde [parade] for work 5.30 pm digging, go to FEUCHY by lorry.
Fine day but turns out wet at night. Church pde [parade] 11.0 am in Cav Bks.
Dull day. Bgde carry out in practice a scheme of an attack at dawn in the neighbourhood of Beaurains. March off 4.35 am. An imaginary relief is carried out & then an attack at 6.15 am, return to Bks 8.15 am.
Dull windy day. FM Sir Douglas Haig visits 4th Div & we find 1 Coy Guard of Honour who get a good name. Inspection of Bks [barracks] by GOC 4th Division in the afternoon.
Mild day. Coys do training. Lecture in Follies Theatre on Imagination in work & play. Very poor.
Fine day. Bttn carries out firing practice at BEAURAINS also Coy [company] training.
We replay 2nd Sea [Seaforth Highlanders] in afternoon & win 2-1.
CRE gives a lecture in the Ecole Communale on work in the line. Wet at night.
Fine morning but frosty. C & D Coys route march A & B rapid wiring. NCOs class as usual.