1918
Aug 15 Fritz Boots
Aug 16 Slept in cellar
Aug 17 Firing on station
Aug 18 Firing on Somme
Aug 19 Slept in shell hole
1000 yds up
Aug 20 Ammunitions dump coons I will eat that rice now man I'll kill you
Got left = Beaucourt = Beaufort
[?] = Warvillers Vrely
Aug 21 Wins letter = Laugh at Lloyd
piece of shrapnel in eye
Aug 22 oisy-les-Verger Cambrai
Sandemont
Dury
Aug 23 Villuers-Les-Cognic
Aug 24 Arras
Aug 25 Sunday = Bomb 1 Capt 10 men
27 wounded. Capt MacKay
& Capt Robertson. Body [?]
Arms = Bury near church
& we ate our dinner
Aug 26 No forward position =
Fritz retreat = 9 pm pull out
= slept on grassy slope
In rain = lost spud
Aug 27 Held all day = slept in Fritz
Dug out = lousy
Aug 28 Held all day
Aug 29 Travel all day = slept on [?]
in woods near Gagny
Aug 30 Held up at Gagny near Boves.
Rain all day = swim in
River Avre
Aug 31 Tent with Fretheway
Mason & Clemeny
saw Fritz guns 4.2 = 59 naval
& Howitzer
Sept 1 Sunday dinner in
back yard = Load in afternoon
slept in horse car = Manure
pulled out in a.m.
Sept 2 Travelled all day
Potato mash for
supper in horse car
Pulled out 9 P.M.
Sept 3 Unload at 4 a.m.
Cambrai on fire
Pulled out Dunville near Arras
Built tent in wheat = out 3 P.M.
Sept 4 Blavincourt on duty all night
& day of 4th - slept under gun
slept in woods with Freth
Sept 5 On water for two day
slept in trench = made
BK of bacon morning of 6
Sept 6 Left 3 PM on duty. Imperials
lost 11 men glad to get out.
Shelled road - one dead 8 makes
3 FWD & 2 wagons = Sgt Troop wd
in neck
Sept 7 Still on duty slept in shell
hole = rain = mud
Sept 8 Premature on I Brewer = Granville
Wills = McCollum = Bury 3 horses
on duty still. Build Dugout for crew.
Sept 9 Straffed with Pip Squaks.
Bradshaw & J. young 2 miles
Fritz 5000 = Returned after 72
hours
Sept 10 In Dug out = H E Bang overhead
Rain = Sprained wrist
1 P.M. Lost ½ my dinner as well
getting a shower of durt
Just discovered foot board on my
bed is the side of a coffin
Sept 11 Dug Allen = leg wound &
shell shock = Dodge Pip
squak & coal box = move
cook house. 6 P.M. Bombardment
on Rt & last all night.
Dud dropped in back yd
left gate open.
Sept 12 Thorn in wrist ¼" = Raining
BK in Chateau yd. Duck 12
times reading letters.
Fine evening - Fritz over
Cook House Fat
[?] for BC post Ha Ha
Sept 13 Friday shell on 59 size on
9.2 Bty 5 killed 11 wounded
in cookhouse in [?] saw
wounded = left in Lorry
10 P.M. Lorry park 11.30 slept
in Lorry = Jock = Cpt. MacKay
Mr. McNeil wounded.
Sept 14 Clean up = fine boil
on [?] = fine Boil
Slept in Lorry
Sept 15 Sunday = on water 11.50
3 Baloons down flames - Pill Box
across road = Yanks adv on Rt
Plane wing shot off. flying low
Bomb 5 & 6 gun & [?]
Sept 16 Lorry - Tuth - Jock - Irish - I
some rain - Gd 4 A.M. - 8
Rubber Boots = Bombs Guns
Up Sunken Road GD 11 - 1
Sept 17 Duty. Allaby Gd 11 - 1 Slept
Trench 90 Gas over
Sept 18 Off 9 slept 9 - 3. Slept in
Dug out.
Sept 19 On Duty - 9 -11 Gd. Gas helmet
Mustard - Keleiser - Byers
w Johnston
Sept 20 Saturday - Move up = Gas
Fritz by moonlight = Dug out
By railway & hedge = Fight
Sept 22 Sunday
Machine 50 Rds at Plane.
link - Hide & Go Seek. - Railway D O
D - near frose - 10 P.M. - S.O.S. Rain.
Sept 23 Billious - Rain - Cold
on road for shells 10 P.M.
Dodge S.M. Slept by
hedge.
Sept 24 Hump shells
20 X 62 11 P.M.
Dodge Wiz Bangs = Bombs
Sept 25 Buit Shack - Stove - Steps
ect. = Machine gun
Top hole = slept standing up
Bombs
Sept 26 Cook house = Plane Fights
Get up cart.
[?] up on road side
Bombs
Barrage midnight
Sept 27 Big Day. =
Fritz dump shells
12 [?]
300 Rds = Smoke Barrage
pontoons = Left of
Cambrai road.
Sept 28 Slept in Chateau in Cambrai ½ past Du Noch
Canal - walk back = no dinner
on shells = Marquin past Canal
Slept Cambrai road Jinkins
R.A. = H Bowan 2 Heavy
Sept 29 Sunday - Load Shells - up over
Canal 7 P.M. Church 31 horses
Infantry = guns. Cambrai
burning = shell hole = hand spike
[?] head = 7 qts water = move
tent up 4 A.M. warm up
Sept 30 Monday Cold - wet, on duty
Dug out - shell hole = one prisoner
[?] up - Dress head - beside
1st Field Bty = Upset BK & Dinner
on lap. Stew = 1st Division
at 11 P.M. out 4 Barrage in Rain.
Oct 1 Tuesday = 7 A.M. Prisoners down
Bombs on left = 90 Rds = Shell [?] to Canal
Cats pull of Lorry is Mud.
Bombs. Planes down 87 P.M.
185 shells Barrage 5 A.M.
Oct 2 Wednesday 145 Shells at one
Baloon = Cold [?] out 4 A.M.
Oct 3 Thursday Nice day. Baloon down
Shell killed Summerville Adam [?]
& 20 - [?] up. Haneycourt Cemetary
on way down on [?] down
Move to woods
Oct 4 on Duty = 15378 rds
Fire 10 - 2.15 A.M. No 6 gun price in
Oct 5 Saturday off Duty. NCO in hole.
Bombs up. Write letters
Dug out off Cambrai Rd.
Cold - Damp. 24 horses killed
Fire 2 Fritz guns
D. McCan 110 Florence St
Oct 6 Sunday on duty - Pull out
Haneycourt. Unload shell
4 horses 2 killed 3 wd - one in
neck = No NCO's Capt & Bacon
Slept on floor - out 5 A.M.
Bombs & Shells [?]
Oct 7 Mon Rear Position
For 7 P.M. Bombs & Shells
Oct 8 H.C. Cookhouse H. Mack
Barrage 1 A.M. 3rd Army
over on our Rt.
7 P.M. near Cart 5 minutes
[?] on window - 2 Bs
2 feet way - Young shook
bed - 4.10 A.M. 15 dead
of wounds & 14 injured
Chief Cook. Bd [?]
Oct 9 Bd - 1 ham 3 sugar
1 Butter - 3 Jam
1 P.M. 2nd div in Cambrai
Cambrai & Donai on Fire
Oct 10 Bluecourt 3 wounded
Nearing - Furgeson - Coverdale
4 P.M. move up 1800 yds
beside 18 [?] - Gas
4 A.M. Troop & 8 down
line Gas. Bombed at 9
A.M.
Oct 11 Friday bombed 9 A.M.
[?] planes over = Cook
Eswars - Horses & men
all in - Runner caught
men out wounded 3 days
Counter attack at supper
Oct 12 Bath - 20 F for 45 Revolver
McCormack out of mind
Men for 3 guns only
Left of Cambrai & Rt Dover
Oct 13 Sunday
Pulled out 5 P.M. through
Cambrai to Villeurs
Enconches. Supper 12 P.M.
Shells over - Slept hole in Bank
Can & Scoties over & then Eng
200 out of 120 ahead of [?]
Oct 14 Monday Shelled all day
Oct 15 Shelled all A.M. 18 new men
Pepper gas 4 A.M. Water
[?] 2 Hineys in Kitchen
Oct 16 Wed. 7 P.M. 7 killed - Pepper
Gas. No Convoys at Cookhouse
[?] down cellar. Mud to
hips - Gas supper.
Oct 17-18-19 Mud to hips
Oct 20 Sunday Pull out [?]
French peasants - carts wheel
Barrows - Kids - starved - 70 [?]
age - Mud- Rain - No cats
15 days. Chief Cook Epinoy
Oct 21 Monday Pull out
Oct 22 Donain past abacon
Oct 23 Wed Sleep in Barn
Corner Cook house
Bury sewing machine
Money on Bread - Kids in
Biscuit can - Kid told
Soldiers Fritz evacuated
1914 had shot off & not
Father- Kaiser here 4 wds
Soldiers mine corners -
Church but refused - took
Civies up to 45 to pull guns
[?] horses - Girls go to
Town Major - had hand
off - Sugar factory
14 K of Valenciens
Oct 24 Thursday 3 L 20 F for
dress at Abscon near
Valenciens
My 3 sisterns - pulled out
for Map[?]
Gen Currie - from Abscon
to Donain - Heron
Mr. Sharples killed
Oct 31 A/Bdr
Nov 1 Bombardment 200
Rob Henry gassed.
Essential Coal Miner AAP
Valenciens on fire.
Nov 4 Monday, Pulled over canal
inot Valescennes, saw
Merrian & Kidney & Lauder
in 1st Heavies -
Oct 5 On duty pulled out 10 P.M. rained
all day & all night. Last went near
Mons back pulled off tonight
Mill in A.M. rain, lousy in mine
Avres bricks at Hiney - Dead at [?] roads
& sunken road - St. Saulve
Nov 9 Avres slept with us in barn
Pull out near mons in convent
Band in square.
Nov 11 Hostilities close 11 hours
shine guns in Squad
Boussu - Rds all mined
N.C.O. Nov 8 - 18
5 oxen team - one cow & one horse
walk Mons to Boussu 11 k
[Missing part of page]
Coal mines from Boussu
to Mons about 50
Rainway mined at Boussu
Dec 22 San San Feran
Mons - sleeper to Bethune
to Paris
Dec 25 Hotel Diena
Madelaine - Hotel Windsor
Florida - Concorde - Are
Triumph - River Seigne
Bordeau Woods
Fontainbleau = Panthcon
Crocodera.
Celebration New Years eve.
Trip up Lille - slept in barn
next day Bethune - Arras.
Donai - Valescennes - Mons
Major killed on front of [?]
1914
Graves of 1st 1914 last 1918
Woman & kids in barn
with us - cat -
Symphosien Civies heat
shell 2 K, wounded
14 kids killed Mons
Woodbines hit mines at
Boussu
Civies [?] - shell in coal
at mons
Madrid in Brussels
Irish girl in Paris
Baths in Coal Mines
Denise at Boussu
Shave girls at abscon
Skirt at Abscon
Biscuits to Kids
Guard at Chatteau
Boussu
La Sentinal big mines
shook candles out on bed
Meal at midnight cook
house under ledge
H.E. on cobbles
Retreat of civies
Froggies at Vrely
Bradshaw at Cagnicourt
Dugout in gun pit "
Machine gun " " "
9.2 Bty "
Corpse at 11 P.M. "
Horses and FW.D where
troop got it in the neck
90 Rds gas Cagnicourt
McCan & Vincent sick "
5 days on duty "
Woodbines pull out Cagnict
Prisoners in woods "
Shell shock chap 22 Vrely
35 duds Vrely
Tank at "
Plane in Flames "
Slept in shell hole "
Dugout "
Cellar "
Laugh at Lloyd"
Hiney guns pass No 6
two guns forward from
Bourlon woods.
Mr. Palmer- Walford & Bacon
Hugh Mack & 5.9 in yard
2 Bombs 24 feet away
14 down in line
The retreat from the lorries
Mr. Sharples on stove
at - 2 K from Valenciens
Hiney in Barn at La Salle
Guns in Mine creater
Cook house Hany court
Johnston Junkins - Farrilough
