At work as usual. Busy all day through Frank being off. Finished late. Went to practice late. Came up with Charlie and Blaikie. Lord Kitchener announced that we will use poisonous gases now¹. An appeal for another 300,000 men.

1. The first British use of gas was at the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915 – there is no mention of it in ALL’s diary. ↩