To Newington Church in morning and All Souls. Cheriton in evening with Private Burgess.
Hottest day in the year up to present.
Sunday 23 May 1915 – fine
To Kensington Church in morning and to “All Souls” (a High Church) in Cheriton in evening. Went for short walk in afternoon.
Saturday 22 May 1915 – fine
Scotch Express and troop train meet in collision and the death toll is 100 or more.
To pictures in Cheriton at 7 pm and home at 9:45 pm
*Quintinshill Rail Disaster – A train crash in Quintinshill Scotland, that occurred when a train full of troops headed to Gallipoli collided with a local passenger train. An express train headed to Glasgow crashed into the wreckage soon after. They all lit on fire and engulfed 2 goods trains that were close by. An estimated 226 people were killed and 246 were injured. To this day the crash has the highest loss of life in any rail crash in the UK.