I go on pass to London 5.30 train.
Visit Mrs. & Charlie Graham at 29 Wyvil Rd. Lambeth SW. Stay all night.
Walter Draycott’s Great War Chronicle
North Vancouver Museum & Archives
I go on pass to London 5.30 train.
Visit Mrs. & Charlie Graham at 29 Wyvil Rd. Lambeth SW. Stay all night.
Started work at Brigade Mapping & Topographical Office under Capt. Carr. PPCLI.
I receive letter from Capt. Chutter of 14 C.I.B. offering me job on his Brigade as draughtsman.
No entries.
At 7 am inoculated against typhus etc.
Write letter to Capt. MacDonald.
Sent over to C.I. Machine Gun Intelligence & Topography office for work there. I have to Revert to Rank of Acting Corporal as documents have been lost despite entries in my pay book.
In morning I go Panorama sketching for some Scheme work north of Seaford.
Same as above.
To see OC respecting my stripes.
I am put i/c [in charge] of Mess rooms. Sergts & mens.
To PPCLI 7th Res. Camp to visit CSM Griggs & L/c Wallach.
A medical exam @ 7.30 am & sign for blankets, etc.
Leave Leic. On Sunday [(19) 20th ]by G.C.R. @ 3.31. Train ½ hr. late. Nancy accompanies me down to the Stn. Arr. London 6.37 two mins. late for my train. Next @ 8 pm. Arr. Seaford @ 12.30 pm via Brighton where I changed.
*Camp Seaford was located on the Coast of England at Seaford. it was set up at the beginning of WWI to train & house soldiers from Wales & the NW of England. Beginning in 1916, the Camps housed Canadian Troops; this continued until after the War, as Canadian Soldiers waited to go home.
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