Walter Draycott’s Great War Chronicle
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Up @ 7 am. Leave [Flowers] @ 8.30 am. Call @ 2 College St. & @ shop to say goodbye. Given fruit by the girls. Leave Leicester @ 11.10 am, change at Trent Junction. Pick up wrong overcoat. Wire thru to search train to Chesterfield & Stations to Glasgow. Arr. Derby @ 12.20. Charles meets me on platform. To Aunt Alice [MacK…… .] & have pleasant time. Aunt, Charles & I go to theatre. To bed at 12.30.
Left Ramsgate 10 am arr London 12.3. noon. Had dinner @ YMCA. Went by 1.45 pm train for Kettering & 5:15 for Leicester arr Leicester @ 6.5. Stayed @ Aunts. Meet Fred who is in Khaki. Gone away @ 8:50 for Beckingham.
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Leave Leicester @ 8.25 am. Arr. Derby 9.40 am.
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Monday, leave Derby 8.8 am. Arr. Manchester 9:55 am. Leave Manchester 10.30 am. Arr. Liverpool 11.37 am.
Up a @ 8 am. Went Leicester Library. Had dinner @ Aunts. Left Lei. @ 2.25. Arr London 5 pm.
To London Bridge by tube in station. Left L. Bdge 6.21 pm. Arr. Ramsgate 9.8. pm
Left Stafford for Liverpool Stn.
Left L’Pool 5:20 with Harry. Gertie & Mack see me off.
Arr 6:47 to Smiths. In Morning to Wm. Salt Library. Miss Bradlivy wants me to write her.
To Doctor @ 10:30 am, Good-bye Harry. Mr Smith & Eileen see me off for Leicester at 11:26 train with Harry who accompanies me. Arr Haverton, 12:30 train for Leicester @ 1:15 PM.
Busy making maps.
Send lace (Flemish) to my aunt of Leicester, 3 yards take 5 days to make.
Frost. Up at 9 am for a walk along river. Send telegram to Leicester. Leave Stafford at 2 PM for Leicester. Tony, Betty and Eileen see me off. Arr. Leicester at 4:30 go to aunts & stay night. Visit Miss Kidd & John Draycot. A zeppelin raid is taking place at 7 PM. All lights are put out but nothing happens.
German Airship Raids – On the evening of the March 5th into the morning of the 6th Germans sent 3 Zeppelins to bomb Rosyth, however high winds forced them instead to bomb Hull. The attack resulted in 18 deaths and 52 injuries with £25,000 worth of damage.
Snow. Visit John, Mrs. D & Almena Draycot. Leave Leicester for Sileby 7:15 PM, arr. 7:30 PM. Kathleen Knight meets me with pony trap. Go to Draycots @ 9 PM all in good health.
Heavy frost
At 2:30 am dress for departure. Await transport in Locre. Leave Locre 4:40 AM, arrive Bailleul 5:15, leave 5:30 AM, arr. Boulogne 10:15 am, leave Boulogne 12:15, arr. Folkestone, 1:30 PM, depart. Folkestone 2 PM, arr. Victoria [station] 5 PM, leave St Pancras [station] 6, arr. Leicester 7:55 go to aunt Louise & stay night.
Working at Canadian Ordnance Corps.
Received an apology from Reverend J. Sheare of Thurnby Leicestershire.
Wrote letters to Reverend Stone of Barrow on Soar and Draycott of Leicester also S.G. Upton’s. Sent badges to the latter.
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