No entry.
Wednesday 3 April 1918
Left Liverpool at 8.50 am train for Leicester. Arr. @ 11l45 am. To Archdeaconry of Leic. to peruse manuscripts ½ day. Charge 5/-. To see girls and Aunt Louise. Had an hour & half chat with them & caught train for London @ 5.48 pm. Arr. camp at 11 pm.
Tuesday 2 April 1918
Harry & I take photos of sketches during day.
To Sq. Upton’s @ 7 pm. Stayed till 10.15 pm. In walking home I fall & damage my hand. Very painful.
Monday 1 April 1918
Bank Holiday.
Put in all day writing our family history.
Take Gert, Violet & Jessie out for a walk to Broadgreen.
*In Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, public holidays are commonly referred to as bank holidays, and the two terms are often used interchangeably, although strictly and legally there is a difference. Bank holidays are holidays when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day. Public holidays are holidays which have been observed through custom and practice.
Sunday 31 March 1918
I have much writing to do so stay indoors all Sunday. Harry busy on photos.
Saturday 30 March 1918
Up at 8.30 am & after Prayers take a walk across the fields with Rev. Ed. Beresford. View his beautiful property of 300 acres. We call on the Curate of Ragdale Church. I look thru’ the Register there. We look thru’ the old hall at Ragdale which was built by Cromwell & later passed into the Ferrers family. We continue our walk to 6 Hills to have lunch there but on arrival find we can get nothing! So have a cup of Oxo & return home through a drizzly rain. I catch train for Liverpool via Leic. @ 2.50 pm. Arr. L’pool 7.30 pm.
Friday 29 March 1918
– good
Train for Leicester goes out @ 2.30 on a/c of it being Sunday. Arr. Leic. @ 5.30 am. Have breakfast and bath, then on to Brooksby to see Rev. Ed. Beresford at Hoby, who is Rector of Hoby & Rotherby & Ragdale. I attend afternoon services & evening service in Hoby church in Church Choir Stalls. After lunch I take a walk with Rev. Beresford to Rotherby Church. Stay the night at the Rectory.
Thursday 28 March 1918
Leave camp at 10 pm to catch 11 pm train for Waterloo.
Wednesday 27 March 1918
No entry.
Tuesday 26 March 1918
Bosche is now at Albert. Damn it!
Sir Doug. Haig “fires” a couple of generals – about time too!!
*In 1918 Haig oversaw the successful British advances on the Western Front which led to victory for the Allies in November. Haig has been criticised by many over the years for his tactics, which it is argued were deeply flawed. The wartime Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, was one such critic. He wrote that he sometimes wondered whether he should have resigned on more than one occasion rather than permit Haig to continue with his strategy. On the other hand, it is suggested that Haig’s hand was largely forced by the pressure placed by the French for constant relief on the Western Front, on the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele in 1917. ( http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/haig.htm)
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