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Saturday 22 April 1916 – rain

April 22, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

It rains all day most unmercifully absolute wretchedness prevails. Colonel Buller lines up the troops & praises them for good work done at Hooge & Ypres Salient expect Huns to break thru at St Eloi.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Colonel Buller, Hooge, Huns, Ypres

Wednesday 12 April 1916

April 12, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

https://monova.ca/greatwarchronicles/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Wednesday_April_12_1916.mp3
Raining Heavy
I am presented to Colonel Buller & Major Hamilton Gault & congratulated on my excellent sketching & map drawing.
I trace and sketch all morning for Mr. MacDougall the intelligence officer & again in afternoon.
Appointed Regimental Topographer.
Battalion goes into trenches, I leave billet at 6:30 PM.
I to Ouderdom with Battalion headquarters for map drawing. Promoted to full corporal.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Colonel Buller, Major Hamilton Gault, mp3

Monday 19 July 1915 – fair

July 19, 2015 by Sarah McLennan

Writing letters all day.
Have a very bad cold.
Colonel Buller inspects the Princess Patricia’s and Company gives him 3 cheers.
Placed £17 in post office savings bank making £20 in all.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Colonel Buller, Princess Patricia

Thursday 8 July 1915 – windy and cloudy

July 8, 2015 by Sarah McLennan

Assisting carpenter in morning.
Wrote letters in the morning.
Colonel Buller and Major Gault paid a visit to what remains of Princess Pats.


* Lt Col H.C. Buller – Colonel Buller took command of the regiment after the death of Colonel Farquhar. He was injured during the Second Battle of Ypres and lost an eye but returned to command the regiment in 1916. He was killed in the Battle of Mount Sorrel on June 2nd 1916.

** Lt Col A. Hamilton Gault –Was a driving force behind the creation of the Princess Pat’s. Gault offered the Canadian government 100,000 dollars to help raise and equip the battalion for overseas duties. Upon the formation of the Regiment he was made Major and was second in command. Gault was also wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres and was forced to give up command until he returned in October of 1915. Gault lost a leg during the Battle of Mount Sorrel in 1916 but again returned to the war, eventually commanding the Princess Pats near the end of the WWI.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Colonel Buller, Major Gault, Princess Patricia

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