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Archives for April 2016

Thursday 20 April 1916 – rain

April 20, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Battn is relieved by 60th Battn Canadians in pouring rain & well-stirred mud. Plentiful supply of shells are falling. No. 3 & 4 take train outside Ypres for a place between Vlamertinghe & Poperinghe then march to D camp in long rubber boots on a bad road. Arrvd in camp at 5 am & slept till afternoon dog-tired.
Russians capture Trebizond.


*The Trebizond Campaign – After a series of naval and land operations beginning on February 5th 1916 Russian Troops were able to push the Ottomans away from the ancient port city of Trebizond. It was captured on the 15th of April 1916 as Ottoman troops abandoned the city during the night.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: 60th Battn Canadians, Poperinghe, Vlamertinghe, Ypres

Wednesday 19 April 1916 – rain

April 19, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Regimental Sergt. Major S. Godfrey & his servant Pte. Boulter are killed in the RSM dugout, CSM Pritchard is badly wounded. A six inch shell penetrates it and smashes dugout to pieces. Boulter’s head is blown clean off.
The rain causes much misery. The exposures to the elements are very trying. German snipers are very accurate & take toll on our men. Pass an awful night in shell hole.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Pte. Boulter, Sergt. Major S. Godfrey

Tuesday 18 April 1916 – rain

April 18, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Conditions most horrible in the trenches. 48 hours in a shell hole without cover & cannot move around. Our casualties are totalling up & now reach 10 killed.
I go to no man’s land & sketch.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries

Monday 17 April 1916 – rain

April 17, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Sketching all day.
Vlamertinghe is heavily shelled.
Receive parcel from Kate Draycot. West Hallam.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Vlamertinghe

Sunday 16 April 1916 – fine

April 16, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Busy sketching & forget all about Sunday. Enemy shell Poperinghe & Busseboom camp. Pt. Peart is wounded in eye when firing from parapet. My best chum.
A Zeppelin passes overhead making westward with much noise.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Busseboom camp, Poperinghe, Zeppelin

Saturday 15 April 1916

April 15, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

Snow & hail in morning.
I go twice under shell & rifle fire to Co H.Q. (the culvert). Interview McD. at 12 & again at 1 PM. We study positions together and decide on making a fresh line on our front. We have aerial photos to go on & compare with our maps. I meet Major Gault who exchanges greetings with a merry laugh & a joke.
Leave H.Q. at 3:30 for Ypres to visit Brigade H.Q. As I pass on Menin road a whiz bang shell strikes within 20 feet from us. I enter Ypres at 4:15 PM & leave at 5:30 PM thro’ Vlamertinge & Busseboom arr. camp 9:30 PM after calling on Wallach.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Busseboom, Busseboom camp, Major Gault, Vlamertinge, Ypres

Friday 14 April 1916

April 14, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

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(Lieut. Horner & Pvt. Evans are killed also Pvt. Warren & Pvt. Craighead)
Sketching up to 3 PM.
Leave camp for the trenches by myself. Take route thro’ Kriusstraat & Ypres arr. at Bn H.Q. at 6:30. Lt. MacDougal (intelligence officer) & I view maps. At 9 PM McD. & I go along the front firing line. As we go over Menin Road Pte. Peart is shot in eye (right) by bullet. The ground all round is pitted with shell holes. We visit the crater which was made by one of our mines when Enemy occupied the ground. All trenches in very bad shape. Only 2 dug outs stench horrible. Many dead Germans & ours near crater, our troops occupy shell holes for 48 hours. I return to H.Q. at 2:30 am.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: bullets, crater, Lieut. Horner, Lt. MacDougal, mp3, shell holes

Thursday 13 April 1916

April 13, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

To Poperinghe in the morning for sketching supplies.
Do some sketching in afternoon in the hut by myself.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Poperinghe

Wednesday 12 April 1916

April 12, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/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

Tuesday 11 April 1916 – rain

April 11, 2016 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Tuesday_April_11_1916.mp3
Raining heavy during night. Heavy bombardment all along our front.
I am called upon to do some sketching & tracing for Col. Buller.

Filed Under: 1916, Diary Entries Tagged With: Col. Buller, mp3

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