At 7 am inoculated against typhus etc.
Write letter to Capt. MacDonald.
Friday 24 August 1917
Sent over to C.I. Machine Gun Intelligence & Topography office for work there. I have to Revert to Rank of Acting Corporal as documents have been lost despite entries in my pay book.
In morning I go Panorama sketching for some Scheme work north of Seaford.
Thursday 23 August 1917
Same as above.
To see OC respecting my stripes.
Wednesday 22 August 1917
I am put i/c [in charge] of Mess rooms. Sergts & mens.
Tuesday 21 August 1917
To PPCLI 7th Res. Camp to visit CSM Griggs & L/c Wallach.
Monday 20 August 1917
A medical exam @ 7.30 am & sign for blankets, etc.
Sunday 19 August 1917
Leave Leic. On Sunday [(19) 20th ]by G.C.R. @ 3.31. Train ½ hr. late. Nancy accompanies me down to the Stn. Arr. London 6.37 two mins. late for my train. Next @ 8 pm. Arr. Seaford @ 12.30 pm via Brighton where I changed.
*Camp Seaford was located on the Coast of England at Seaford. it was set up at the beginning of WWI to train & house soldiers from Wales & the NW of England. Beginning in 1916, the Camps housed Canadian Troops; this continued until after the War, as Canadian Soldiers waited to go home.
Thursday 16 August to Saturday 18 August 1917
No entries.
Wednesday 15 August 1917
To swimming baths with Norman & Fred Leighton. Leave Stafford by 11.40 train. Conducted to station by Doctor Miller in auto. Mrs. Leighton & Norman see me off.
Arr. Leicester 2.30 pm. Visit store & office to see Aunt who is seriously ill.
Tuesday 14 August 1917
Harry & I leave L.pool Lime St. 4.5 & 3.55 pm respectively. I to Stafford & he to Rhyll. I send tel. prepaid to Base for xtension.
Arr. Stafford @ 6 pm Tuesday (Aug. 14). Visited Stafford Prison with Mr. Leighton & Mrs. Leighton. Saw condemned cell & execution scaffold, etc.
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