Packing up for movement to Cramont via Conteville. Enemy shell Cassel & Mont des Cats
Saturday 11 March 1916
On bus in Locre to rejoin rgt. We are told rgt. Left Dranoutre for Fletre or Mont des Cats. Back to Bailleul & report to Can. camp Commandant at 11 am.
Get into motor lorrie for Meteren & then walk to billets near Mont des Cats, arrive about 1:15 PM. A great greeting by the troops who afterwards informed me I was in orders as struck off the strength of battalion active list. Should have gone to Folkestone or Shorncliffe.
Saturday 29 January 1916 – Fair
We leave billet at 12:15 for Mont Des Cats. I leave Coy at Bailleul & go into town. Met L/c Lightbody + go to Cinema. Afterward to Meteren + near Mont des Cats distance 15 Kilometers in full Marching Order.
*Mont des Cats – A small hill near Godewaersveld in Flanders. The Mont des Cats Abbey sits atop the hill and was originally built around 1650. The famous Mont des Cats cheese has been made in the Abbey by monks since 1890.
