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Friday 9 August 1918

August 9, 2018 by jbushey

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Nield & I go to Bromley & make a tour of bookshops. I purchase a Materia Medica & other books.

The British, Canadians, Australians & French have within last 3 days captured 40,000 prisoners & over 300 guns on the Amiens front.

*Materia medica (English: medical material/substance) is a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing (i.e., medicines). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materia_medica)

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, mp3, prisoners

Monday 15 November 1915 – snow

November 15, 2015 by NVMA

A fall of snow occurred during the night. 3 inches deep.
Captain Griggs goes to Amiens by motor to get teeth fixed.
Am now the only barber in the Regiment for 1,000 men and Officers. Many new Officers arrive for instruction by our Regiment.
Two parades a day. I visit the interior of the Chateau. Very beautiful.

The Germans get ahead of us at Frise and blow up the mines.
They attempted to occupy the excavation but were repulsed after sharp fighting.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, Captain Griggs, Frise, Germans

Saturday 13 November 1915 rain

November 13, 2015 by NVMA

Rained hard all night.
Busy cutting prisoners heads of hair. We have 30.
Private Williams the other Regimental barber goes to hospital (with [ladies?] fever). Many men have contracted venereal disease from Amiens and other places.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, regimental barber, venereal disease

Saturday 30 October 1915 – fair

October 30, 2015 by NVMA

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All passes into Amiens are stopped by order of Brigadier General. Too many absentees and drunks etc.

Kit inspection for the troops.
The Battalion was paraded for promulgation of a Field General Court Martial.
The prisoner Private 1832 Brennirs, or Bremner. Crime was desertion whilst on Active Service.
Sentence. Death.
Sentence Commuted to 10 years imprisonment hard labor.


* Promulgation – The act of formally proclaiming or declaring a new statutory or administrative law/doctrine after its enactment; in this case, of declaring the sitting of the Court Martial.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, Bermner, Brigadier General, Field General Court Martial, prisoner, Private 1832 Brennirs, promulgation

Friday 29 October 1915

October 29, 2015 by NVMA

Raining all day. Lots of mud and cold.
The troops are allowed passes into Amiens pro ratio 5 per platoon.
The troops go out on a field day in full marching order. Attacking.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, attacking

Wednesday 27 October 1915

October 27, 2015 by NVMA

I obtain a pass to go to Amiens from 2 pm till midnight.
Start at 2 pm on a 9 kilometer tramp. Arrive at Amiens at 3:15 pm. Visit the Cathedral. The Exterior front is guarded against destruction by airship bombs by thousands of sandbags piled up. The interior is very pretty and richly embellished.
In center of Cathedral is a casket (transparent) which contains a piece of bone of St. John the Baptist. Quite a few effigies but not equal to English Cathedral specimens and quantity.
The High Altar is the best ever seen. Very mystic, golden candlesticks and other ornaments. At back of altar is a piece of work representing the sun behind the clouds and cherubims among them. Golden rods represent the sun’s rays. A dove is suspended from the ceiling and hangs amidst the clouds.
Some good tracing work and carving , a treasure house of Flemish glass Azure blue etc.


*Amiens – At the start of the war Amiens was an advance base for the British army. It was captured by the Germans for a short while in 1914 but taken back by the French soon after. It was an important rail hub due to its proximity to the western front. During the final year of the war it became an important target for the Germans and their inability to capture it helped lead to their eventual defeat.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, Cathedral, sandbags, St. John the Baptist

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