Fine morning. I get ready for leave & get a Ford car about 11.0am & drive down to Cantimpre arriving about 1.30pm. Train due to leave at 3.30pm, but very late & eventually leaves at 8.30pm. Very fine but awful cold. We crawl all night & get to Ligny about 7.30am, very cold & tired on 11th inst.
The diary of Regimental Sergeant Major George Beck
First World War diaries 100 years from when they were written during campaigns on the Western Front
