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Wednesday 19 October 1916

October 19, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

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Filed Under: 1916

Tuesday 18 October 1916

October 18, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

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Filed Under: 1916

Monday 17 October 1916

October 17, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

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Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries

Monday 16 October 1916

October 16, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Left Berteaucourt @ 6:30 passed thro’ Domart. Rested in cemetery. Reached Ribeaucourt @ 11 AM. General resides @ chateau with other Bde officers. Officers go for ride on horse-back thro’ the woods. Difficult billeting. Poor [houses?] cannot purchase food.
The family of de Bernfy resides in chateau but are away in Amiens @ present.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Berteaucourt, Ribeaucourt

Sunday 15 October 1916

October 15, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Pte Fetherstone & I get bikes & journey to Vignacourt, there had dinner at Café [Mignier?] & thence to Flixecourt. Lovely country. High wind makes “bike pushing” hard.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries

Saturday 14 October 1916

October 14, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Take the observers out into the country & teach them sketching.
Visit the village of St. Ouen, big place & has a branch factory of Saint Freres there. Confer with Capt Wallis re files.
Pte Knowling went with me to St Ouen.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries

Friday 13 October 1916

October 13, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Up at 5, off at 6 to Berteaucourt in Coy with L/c Hodge. Walk to Villers-Bocage & enter lorry there bound for Bernaville. Stop off @ Canaples. Walk to Berteaucourt & arr @ 1:30 PM. No billet for me so sleep in barn on straw with Cpl Harper.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Bernaville, Berteaucourt

Thursday 12 October 1916

October 12, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Bde moves to Val de Maison at 12:15. L/c Hodge, Knowling & self walk on ahead. Pt Walls meets us at Val de Maison. He is 3 days absent.
I sleep in pig sty but on straw. Pt Peter Wallach is wounded in leg.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Val de Maison

Wednesday 11 October 1916

October 11, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

I write letter to Mrs Wallach. Not busy today, go write few letters.
Bde slept in open field last night. Send dead man’s effects to 2nd Canadian Div 28th & 27th battn. Bde Sergt Major wakens me at midnight to ask me for my full name – presumably for birthday New [Year?] honors?
Cannot sleep, too many interruptions.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: 2nd Canadian Div 28th & 27th battn

Tuesday 10 October 1916

October 10, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

We move to Warloy-baillon at noon (1:30 PM). Pt A.W. Fetherstone & I sleep in an attic which we find was flea-infested.
Pt Wallach is reported as missing. Pt Crawford to Hospital.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries

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