Ill & in “bed” all day with exception that I make an urgent map for the General.
Miserable weather. Pts Stenhouse, Menzies & Wells go to hospital, 8th, 8th and 10th respectively.
Archives for November 2016
Thursday 9 November 1916
Ill in my dugout all day.
Tuesday 7 November 1916 and Wednesday 8 November 1916
On morning of 8th I have a nervous breakdown & feel as if I am going mad. Get into open air and try to walk it off. Tis’ raining hard, my limbs stiffen & I lay down in a disused dugout in agony. My chums find me & want to send for a doctor but I refuse as army doctors know but little & care less. Very weak at night.
Sunday 5 November 1916 and Monday 6 November 1916
L/c White my assistant draughtsman arrives back from hospital. Enemy shelling the road where we walk on to dugouts. One shell bursts on opposite side of a wall where I take cover. Am covered in brick and chalk dust but escape with only a shock. Another bursts over my head higher up the road. Bullets are whizzing past in fine style.
Friday 3 November 1916 and Saturday 4 November 1916
Friday 3 November 1916 and Saturday 4 November 1916
Make trips around trenches to correct them. Go into lines of 9th Brigade.
Thursday 2 November 1916
Rain & high winds.
Little doing re shelling but Lieut. H Wallis exposes his utter ignorance of the duties of intelligence officer. The stubborn, ignoramus, argumentative, ignorant, pig. Young & silly. Inexperienced.
Wednesday 1 November 1916
Fine but cloudy. I go to Neuville St Vaast & the trenches for information concerning the location of HdQrs & trenches.
Enemy very active, many trench mortar bombs & rifle grenades are sent over to us. An RCR man has his leg blown off & succumbs to it & several men are wounded, an officer also. I travel along a trench wherein are several dead Huns & Frenchmen. Ghastly sight.
