Archives for June 3, 2016

At 2 PM I go with Lieut. Willis (A.D.C. to General McDonnell) & an orderly, named Wall, to deliver secret dispatches to Colonel Griesbach of 49th (O.C. Battalions in firing line). When entering China Wall we walk over dead bodies for one mile after passing Halfway House the shelling is awfully intense, all calibre. Parapet blown in, burying & killing many. Am alone, orderly is killed. Push on to Yeomanry Post, rest halfway. Meet Willis. We go together reach Yeo. P. deliver dispatches. I take further dispatches to O.C. 60th BN (Col Gascoigne) deliver them under a murderous fire. Miraculous escapes. Hundreds dead and dying, also wounded. Fall many times from exhaustion. Bring more dispatches to Yeo. P. Intense bombardment at 8:30 PM. Stay Y.P. till 10 PM. Ypres 2 am.