Joe Draycot leaves for Barsby at 7 am. To Barrow-on-Soar to see Reverend Stone. Searched Registers and stayed for lunch and tea with Mrs Stone, Reverend Stone and two daughters Ruth and …
(sent telegram to Stafford)
To Sileby (and Seagrave with Maud and May) Saw Inglesant and Gert. Leave Sileby at 7:30 pm.
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Sunday 30 May 1915 – fine
To Barrow on Soar Church. A feast of Holy Trinity is being held. Church full. Boys Church Brigade and National Reserve. Back in Seagrave at 1 pm. At 2:30 to Sileby and see Joe Draycot and family. After tea to Primitive Methodist Church at Sileby with Joe. Back to Seagrave at 9 pm.
Saturday 29 May 1915
Intended going to Liverpool but cancelled it.
To Loughboro in afternoon with Maud, May, and Gert. Bought gloves for all and present for Joe Draycot. Had tea at a restaurant. Cycled back to Seagrave and arrived at 8:30 pm
Friday 28 May 1915
Leave Union Jack Club for St. Pancras Station. Leave my kit there and then take a bus for Hyde Park. Went to Zoo and Botanical Gardens and Madame Tussaud’s.
Boarded 2:30 train for Leicester and arrived at Sileby at 4:45. Maud as usual but others ___! Mr Looms proves himself to be a hypocrite and clot.
Thursday 27 May 1915 – fine
Met two young fellows of the 5th King’s Liverpool Regiment. Stoney broke and without breakfast. I filled them with good things and we toured the city. We saw the Marble Arch, Hyde Park, St. James Park, Buckingham Palace, The Tower and Tower Bridge, British Museum, The Royal Exchange, Bank of England, State Jewels (in the Tower of London), Mansion House, St. Paul’s. Westminster Abbey etc and 10 Downing Street.
Wednesday 26 May 1915 – fine
To see Westminster Abbey. House of Parliament. St. Margaret’s Church. Waterloo Bridge. Blackfriars and Westminster Bridge. St. Paul’s Cathedral. Whitehall United Services Museum and where King Charles was beheaded etc.
Tuesday 25 May 1915 – fine
Am granted a pass for a month and so are all others of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in order to clean out the camp.
Leave Shorncliffe at 4:36 and arrive in London at 7:30. Stay at Union Jack Club.
*Union Jack Club – An Armed Forces Club in London. It is used by the members/veterans of the British Armed Forces and their families. The club has accommodations as well as a restaurant and bar. The club is still open to this day though it is housed in a new building as the original building was demolished in 1971.
Monday 24 May 1915 – fine
Stay in camp all day.
Draft of 25 men left Shorncliffe for reinforcing Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. All old hands.
Sunday 23 May 1915 – fine
To Kensington Church in morning and to “All Souls” (a High Church) in Cheriton in evening. Went for short walk in afternoon.
Saturday 22 May 1915 – fine
Scotch Express and troop train meet in collision and the death toll is 100 or more.
To pictures in Cheriton at 7 pm and home at 9:45 pm
*Quintinshill Rail Disaster – A train crash in Quintinshill Scotland, that occurred when a train full of troops headed to Gallipoli collided with a local passenger train. An express train headed to Glasgow crashed into the wreckage soon after. They all lit on fire and engulfed 2 goods trains that were close by. An estimated 226 people were killed and 246 were injured. To this day the crash has the highest loss of life in any rail crash in the UK.
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