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Thursday 7 September 1916
Hot & dry. Leave Winnezeele at 9:30 am via Oudezeele Ledinghem & to Esquelbecq . Arr: at station 3:30 PM. To Conteville near Amiens by way of Calais. (Left Esq 9 @ 4:30 PM) Boulogne. Arrive at 2:30 am. March to Cramont – 3 miles & stay up till Sunday. The Brigade & Regiment move off at 8 am & leave me behind in the school with the schoolmaster to make a map of the trenches NOT a word of English is spoken in the village. What a predicament? Finish one plan & Pte Llewellyn calls for it on a motorcycle at 8 PM. He takes my rifle and pack sack back with him. I arrange to stay the night with the instituter (school master) at the village school. Delightful bed & breakfast.
Wednesday 6 September 1916
Packing up for movement to Cramont via Conteville. Enemy shell Cassel & Mont des Cats
Tuesday 5 September 1916
Poperinghe shelled heavily. Reported missing yesterday. 8 men from Rgt join my staff as observers. I have to instruct them in field sketching and observing. L/c Driscoll F. is sent back to Rgt as he became lazy & stubborn.
Monday 4 September 1916
I pack up & off for Winnezeele at 9:35 am. It rains lightly. Roads very bumpy & wet. General MacDonell sends for me for congratulations re services to English Brigade.
Sunday 3 September 1916
Enemy bombarding Ypres & vicinity. Much aircraft activity – two of our AA guns fire 130 shells without result. (expense) An interesting fight takes place over Hooge but enemy aeroplane gets safely away.
5 of our planes go over enemy lines amidst a hail of shells and return 2 hours later amidst another hail, no damage to them.
In evening I go over Ypres with a dispatch rider to show him the sights. Much shelling of the Lille Gates. Enemy send over gas at 11 PM, 2 & 4 am little damage done.
*Lille Gate – A gate in town of Ypres just south of the city center it is the only surviving gate from the ramparts of the 14th century. The towers at the gate were used as military headquarters for a while due to the protection they provided from artillery fire. These were the only historic gateway in Ypres to survive the bombardment of WWI
Saturday 2 September 1916
Make maps for 2nd Lt Fraser-Luckie. Enemy bombard Lille Gate and Cav. Bks & Inf. Bks*. Gas is sent over to us by Enemy at Hooge and Mount Sorrel three times during night. An enemy aeroplane is brought down by our anti-a guns.
*Cavalry and Infantry Barracks
Friday 1 September 1916
Leave Winnezeele for Ypres on a push bike. Roads very bumpy. Arr St Laurent & have a smash up – get it fixed at Watou. Dinner at a refugees, (impromptu) house near Poperinghe. Arr Ypres 2 PM after 3 hours ride. Find 11th British Brigade are still in the trenches. They have lost heavily since occupation. Poperinghe is shelled again.
Thursday 31 August 1916
Made coloured map of Pozieres, Martinpuich district for Intell Officer.
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