Up at 7.30. Usual day. Fine afternoon. Had walk round town with Black. Bought some apples for Green and ate them ourselves.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
10 December 1915; Friday
Up at 7.30. Usual day and night. Can’t get in to see Green.
9 December 1915; Thursday
Got up 7.30. Usual day and night.
8 December 1915; Wednesday
Got up about 7.30. Wrote to Charlie and to Joe.
7 December 1915; Tuesday
Got up as usual. At the orderly room in the morning with Corporal Collins and Welsh. Welsh got 14 days C.b. 1 and was lucky he didn’t get more. Green went to the V.A.D. sick with influenza. Out at night with Black and had a short walk. Talked pretty seriously and found him a sincere decent fellow.
10th Division in action in Serbia2 about this time.
Confined to Barracks – presumably punishment for his disobedience of the day before. ↩
“Serbia”: spelling has changed since 23 July 1914. ↩
6 December 1915; Monday
Got up about 7.30. Wet day. Welsh refused to go to the V.A.D.1 when ordered by Lieutenant Smith in the afternoon. Corporal Collins ran him in. Went to the pictures at night with Black. They were pretty good. Spent a decent night.
“V.A.D.”: Voluntary Aid Detachment? ↩
5 December 1915; Sunday
At church twice - Clayport1. Mr Don preaching in the morning and Mr Lawton at night. At the Bible class in the Y.M. in the afternoon and at the meeting at night. The Baptist choir singing at night. Wet night. Had spray2 first thing.
Clayport: See 21 November. ↩
“spray” perhaps means “shower” – a form of ablution sufficiently unusual in 1915 to have perhaps no settled name? ↩
4 December 1915; Saturday
Received parcel from home and one from the church through Chadwick. Wrote to Chadwick. Spent morning in going into the town to see bailiffs and going to Barton Farm. Grand morning, frost and snow. Wet afternoon and I didn’t go out. Wretched night. Went across to Green’s hut with Black and had some supper from them. Rotten night. Watson, Dunbar, Bulmer, and Shaw, drunk. Had a bit trouble and didn’t get my things off until 11 o’clock.
3 December 1915; Friday
Day as usual. Drew rations. Got orders to go back to Hut 36 because there are some strange men going in. Read at night.
Got Segts’ [Sergeants’] Mess Book to keep.
2 December 1915; Thursday
Day as usual. Talked to men in the room last thing about military discipline. Read a bit in the afternoon from my manual. Wrote to Charlie. Heard that Charlie had been at Alexandria.