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Saturday 14 September 1918

September 14, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

– rain

Rumour has it that we go away on Wednesday next straight to the boat.  I go into Orpington & send telegram for my belongings, photos, etc.  Also send Harry 10/- by wire.  Writing letters all day to all & sundry.  To Orpington in evening & meet Nield.

Monrufret returns from leave: his name omitted from boat list.

Yanks capture St. Mihiel & 13,000 prisoners.

*In this WWI cemetery, the graves of 4153 American soldiers who died in the 1918 Battle of St-Mihiel radiate towards a central sundial topped by a white American eagle.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Orpington, prisoners

Tuesday 13 August 1918

August 13, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

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–– hot

The Matron says that during latest push we have taken 700 guns and 40,000 prisoners & a 5 engined bombing machine of the Huns dropped behind our lines on Somme.

7 dead Huns in it.

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Huns, mp3, prisoners

Friday 9 August 1918

August 9, 2018 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Friday_August_9_1918.mp3

Nield & I go to Bromley & make a tour of bookshops. I purchase a Materia Medica & other books.

The British, Canadians, Australians & French have within last 3 days captured 40,000 prisoners & over 300 guns on the Amiens front.

*Materia medica (English: medical material/substance) is a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing (i.e., medicines). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materia_medica)

Filed Under: 1918, Diary Entries Tagged With: Amiens, mp3, prisoners

Monday 19 February 1917

February 19, 2017 by Sarah McLennan

 – thaw

Very busy with secret maps “pour le grand avance”.

We make considerable gains in the Ancre. Capture 761 prisoners & 12 officers.

*The Ancre is a river of Picardy, France. Rising at Miraumont, a hamlet near the town of Albert, it flows into the Somme at Corbie. The Battle of the Ancre, 13–18 November, was the final large British attack of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, before winter. After the Battle of the Ancre , British attacks on the Somme front were stopped by the weather. During the rest of 1916 and early January 1917, military operations by both sides were mostly restricted to survival in the rain, snow, fog, mud fields, waterlogged trenches and shell-holes. British operations on the Ancre from 10 January – 22 February 1917, forced the Germans back 5 miles (8.0 km) on a 4 miles (6.4 km) front, and eventually took 5,284 prisoners. On 22/23 February the Germans fell back another 3 miles (4.8 km), soon resulting in their complete withdrawal from the region.

(www.wikipedia.com)

Filed Under: 1917 Entries, Diary Entries Tagged With: Ancre, prisoners

Tuesday 13 February 1917

February 13, 2017 by Sarah McLennan

Cpl. Harper & I watch from Ouvrage Chassery.

42nd Battn. (2 Company) make a raid into enemy trenches, get two prisoners.  Others who were in dugouts & refused to come out were bombed by Stokes trench mortars.  Enemy retaliated with a heavy bombardment.  16 killed of [Bosches].

[Our losses.]

4th Div. make a raid @ 4 am.  Result 40 prisoners & one officer.

To see Lt. Gleam in La Targette at 9 pm.

*Ouvrage is the French term for a large fort.

**42nd Battalion of the Royal Highlanders of Canada

Filed Under: 1917 Entries, Diary Entries Tagged With: prisoners

Monday 13 September 1915 – fine and hot

September 13, 2015 by Sarah McLennan

https://greatwarchronicle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Monday_September_13_1915.mp3
On parade in early morning. We had interesting sight. A German aeroplane came over to spy. Our men were hiding in the clouds whilst two British came to his front and rear, another one attacked him from above. They fired their machine gun and the German was hit in the petrol tank. He banked, then rights himself and made for his lines. He was headed off by a British ‘plane and descended into a field. The King’s Royal Rifles were out on a march and the scouts were ordered to surround the ‘plane and take occupants prisoners. As they advanced, the airmen used the machine gun on them killing one of the King’s Royal Rifles. The Hun was then riddled with bullets. The machine was brand new. The observer was killed in the air and was breathing his last when all firing ceased. At 9:30 we did a route march of 5 miles in full marching order. I visited the KRR and transport in evening. Interviewed Corporal Walker in charge of the Scouts, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

Filed Under: 1915, Diary Entries Tagged With: British plane, Corporal Walker, German, King royal rifles, mp3, prisoners, The Hun

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