Fine morning. I get a rather bad dose of fever & ague about mid-day & go to bed, high temperature & feel pretty rotten, bad night & not much sleep. P Lackett gets boots done for me.
Category Archives: WW1
Jul 23 St. CATHERINE
Fine day. Training as usual. Have photo taken at night in ARRAS. Visit ‘DUDS’ concert party at night. Extra good.
Jul 22 St. CATHERINE
Fine day. Training hard. Fritz very active shelled all back areas, not very much damage. Bttn goes into the line A B D. C support.
Jul 21 St. CATHERINE
Fine day. Training hard.
Jul 20 St. CATHERINE
Rich’s birthday.
Fine morning. Keep up training, fairly quiet day & night. Good sleep.
Jul 19 St. CATHERINE
Fine morning. We start hard training men fairly fit. Fairly quiet night. Good sleep.
Jul 18 St. CATHERINE
Cold wind, dull, rain later, very quiet. Heavy showers at night, we do some training, good night.
Jul 17 St. CATHERINE
Fine morning, some rain later, we do a bit of training later, fairly quiet night good sleep.
Jul 16 DINGWALL CAMP
Fine morning. Bttn prepares to move up into line (close support)
Capt COCHRAN wounded. Two horses killed. I go back to transport to look after Runners. Chaplain returns from leave but I don’t see him. Have a nice bath & change. Tres Bien. Good sleep.
Jul 15
Fine morning, fresh breeze. Church service 10.30 am. Very nice.
Ask CO about my leave very decisive NO. Ask L to try & get a certificate as to health. Feel awful wild. Some rain at night. Fairly quiet.