Attend Church parade in open field with Church of England Chaplain. About 100 attend Communion. Went swimming in canal and saved the life of Captain Griggs from drowning. He had cramp of leg.
Thursday 22 April 1915 – fine
Breakfast at 7:30. Parade for walking exercise. At 9:30 am down to the beach.
Wrote letters in evening at Church of England Institute. A general muster roll is called for all Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. The English Airship passes over the Channel. A huge cigar shape.
*Muster Roll – The process of accounting for the members of the military unit.
Sunday 7 February 1915
To Church of England in morning in Khaki and afternoon and evening to Primitive Methodist Chapel with girls and Mr Inglesant. The latter preached at both services and very earnest too.
Maud and Lily sit up and chat with me till 12:30 midnight.
* The Primitive Methodists (Draycott often calls them the P.M.’s) were an offshoot of Wesleyan Methodism in Britain in the 19th Century. They focused attention on the role of lay people, and on simplicity of worship. The two streams of Methodism re-merged in the 1930’s.
