No entry.
Monday 2 April 1917
No entry.
Sunday 1 April 1917
We are relieved by 9th Bde. 42nd RHC make a raid. Kill 20 of the enemy & secure one prisoner. I question him thru interpreter as to location of various defenses etc. A Pole with enmity against Kaiser.
In afternoon an enemy aeroplane attacks our offenses but is driven off, making nose dive.
*RHC – Royal Highland Regiment of Canada (Black Watch).
Saturday 31 March 1917
Very heavy artillery bombardment on both sides. Frightful.
One shell ploughs up ground at side of dugout whilst we are asleep. We decamp.
Friday 30 March 1917
No entry.
*Infantry in touch with whole German front from Arras to six miles south-west of St. Quentin.
Thursday 29 March 1917
2:35 to 3:15 am & 4:20 am. A most Hellish fiendish bombardment is in full swing during early hours. Neuville St. Vaast is heavily shelled with 8” & 5.9” shells. Machine gun fire appalling. Many fires reported at back of enemy lines.
Wednesday 28 March 1917
– fine, cold
PPCLI make a raid @ 5 am.
Fearful bombardment continues. Enemy retaliate. Vimy Ridge with Ecole & La Folie Farm are being pulverized by our artillery. I go to the Crater also Subway & to 11 Bde. Area.
In afternoon there are many air flights. Both sides patrol their own lines, then dart forward when opportunity offers & do battle. Enemy has much faster machines than ours. One of our battle ‘planes go over his lines decoyed by an enemy ‘plane painted red. He is set upon by 3 others & forced to descend. His machine bursts into flames 500 feet up & lands in German line N. of Vimy.
Tuesday 27 March 1917
– snow flurries
Many air flights.
Enemy has a plane painted red & manned by a skilful pilot – a daredevil.
I go around the trenches to estimate damage.
Enemy shell Neuville St. V. unmercifully. The whole village is enveloped in smoke. A dugout containing C.M. Rifles is penetrated by shell. Kills 10 & wounds 12. Other casualties.
Enemy also shell Mt. St. Eloy & Berthenval Farm. An armour piercing shell is discovered (Blind).
*The Red Baron again?
*C.M.R. = Canadian Mounted Rifles
Monday 26 March 1917
Absolute murder is going on on our left which changes afterwards to our lines.
Our artillery pulverise Vimy Ridge all day doing great damage. PP’s make a raid but lose 1 killed 1 missing & 4 wounded.
Make another later & also fail to get a prisoner.
Sunday 25 March 1917
Tis Sunday & we don’t know it. All day long & into evening there is very heavy shelling. We have the upper hand & shell him along the line as far as the eye can see. I go to Empire Redoubt. Narrowly escape a shell which burst close to me.
Pont St. a good trench now a broken mass & all in the course of an hour. Previous to this I had walked down it when the 1st shell struck it with a passion.
Two red machines up today but they do not engage ours.
Heavy bombardment on our left @ 8 to 10 pm.
*A “redoubt” is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort. It may be constructed of earthworks, stone or brick. And may be a permanent structure or a hastily-constructed temporary fortification.
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