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Saturday 31 August 1918

August 31, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

 – cloudy, cool

To Bromley with Nield. We have 8 new arrivals, 6 of them are gassed – awful cases. Some blind with it – mustard & [……] gas.

Sister Gerard goes off night duty.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: mustard gas

Friday 30 August 1918

August 30, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

I draw £10 from Paymaster, the last I shall get in England. British take Bapaume & French take Noyon. We have taken 2,000 enemy guns since Aug. 18.

Whist Drive in Ward given by Sister Gerard. Beattie 1st Anderson 2nd prizes.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Bapaume, Noyon

Thursday 29 August 1918

August 29, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

Monufret & I go to St. Pauls Cray, St. Mary Cray and Foots Cray for a walk.

*The name Cray possibly derives from the Saxon crecca: a brook or rivulet, but it also relates to a Welsh word craie: fresh water. The Latin word creta: chalk, must not be overlooked, as the River Cray flows over a chalk bed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_Cray)

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries

Wednesday 28 August 1918

August 28, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

 – rain

Parade at clothing store to have kit checked. Also @ admission & discharge room to receive form to fill up. Bapaume taken by us. Roye by the French.

I go to St. Mary Cray with Crocker on invitation by Crocker & I go to concert etc. given by Co-operative Socy. Girls. Splendid time & returned home at 10.30 pm. Miss Brinklow gives invitation to us.

*The website (www.greatwar.co.uk) indicates that the British recaptured Roye on August 27th and Bapaume on August 29th, and that Noyon was retaken by the French on the 29th.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Bapaume

Tuesday 27 August 1918

August 27, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

– rain

In afternoon to Chislehurst Common to see English Forestry Corp re chat on Forestry equipment. Monrufret accompanies me. Get many mushrooms of various edible sorts.

Call in to see Mrs. Pipe.

 

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: chiselhurst, English Forestry Corp

Monday 26 August 1918

August 26, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Monday_August_26_1918.mp3

17,000 prisoners captured in Haig’’s advance yesterday. In afternoon to see English Women’’ s Forestry Corps with Goulding(an Australian) & others. We do some scrumping for apples on our return. We ate so many that two of us had to go to bed.

*Scrumping is the term used by the women of the Forestry Corps for climbing the high walls of an orchard and pilfering the apples.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: mp3, Women Forestry Corps

Sunday 25 August 1918

August 25, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Sunday_August_25_1918.mp3

–– rain

Since July 18 Hun prisoners 100,000 . We capture 15 villages in a week.

Stayed in hospital all day.

Wet.

Miss Cavell, cousin of Nurse Cavell, calls & distributes flowers. We have a very interesting chat. If Nurse Cavell was like her cousin, she must have been an angel.

*Edith Cavell was a British nurse during the First World War. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without distinction. Born in England, Nurse Cavell moved to Belgium where she was appointed matron of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels in 1907. With war in 1914 and the subsequent German occupation of Belgium Cavell joined the Red Cross; the Berkendael Institute was converted into a hospital for wounded soldiers of all nationalities.Many of the captured Allied soldiers who were treated at Berkendael subsequently succeeded in escaping – with Cavell’s active assistance – to neutral Holland. In 1915, she was arrested for helping 200 allied soldiers escape from German occupied Belgium. She was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage. (https://www.cavellnursestrust.org/edith-cavell)

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Hun, mp3, Nurse Cavell

Saturday 24 August 1918

August 24, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

Monufret and I go to St. Pauls & Mary Cray. Visit an old water mill at Orpington worked by Mr. Hodsoll. Very old but interesting machinery.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Orpington

Friday 23 August 1918

August 23, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

462 enemy aeroplanes brought down by British in a fortnight.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: enemy aeroplanes

Thursday 22 August 1918

August 22, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

To Orpington.

[Vedrian] still alive & doing intelligence work for France. He takes French spies over to Germany, drops them & calls back for them later. He has Legion of Honor, etc. etc.

 

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: French spies, Legion of Honor, Orpington

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