Breakfast 6:30 AM, blankets rolled @ 7 AM, move off 8:15 for Locre billeted in huts.
Met some of 27, 24, 29th Canadian Battalions, Capt Barclay goes on leave
Wednesday 5 January 1916 – fair
Feeling very weak but slightly better. Capt Barclay went to trenches at Ploegsteert on Saturday David Young & Walter Dunham go on 7 days leave to England. They take films for me.
*Ploegsteert – A village in Belgium where fierce fighting took place during the First World War. Winston Churchill fought as a commanding officer in this area during 1916. Today the village holds a memorial to commemorate soldiers who died in Ploegsteert but have no grave.