On fatigues as usual. No lecture in the afternoon. Paid in the afternoon. At Y.M. at night. Put in pass for tomorrow and had to parade before the adjutant to get it.
Concert in the Y.M.C.A. hall. Mrs Brown a good singer, but the other things terrible.
On parade as usual. Lecture in the afternoon. Walked into town at night. Cold a bit better. Got clear of isolation job.
On parade as usual. Got taken off scabies job in the morning and Shepherd† put in my place. Out at night.
Reported sick first thing and then went to duty. Received orders from Lieutenant Stemple† to go to isolation camp and look after men. Old Collins there too. I went into town and saw a man washed in a slipper bath at the workhouse. Rotten dirty chap. I was there all the afternoon.
Reported sick and was sent back to bed. Spent most of the day in bed and got up a bit at night.
Church parade. Had a cold. At church in the morning and sat in the same pew as the Misses Mack and merely nodded. Didn’t overtake them coming back to camp owing to the man I was with stopping to speak to Mr Douglas. They didn’t turn out at night. Cold worse. Read all the afternoon and finished I will Repay1.
“I Will Repay”: novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, who lived at Acol (near Thanet in Kent). I Will Repay is the second Scarlet Pimpernel book written by Orczy although it comes chronologically third in the series, after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. See also I Will Repay and Arthur Linfoot’s Library. ↩
I Will Repay is a novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, who lived at Acol (near Thanet in Kent).
I Will Repay is the second Scarlet Pimpernel book written by Orczy although it comes chronologically third in the series, after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.
Arthur Linfoot wrote that he had finished reading I Will Repay on 23 January 1916, while posted to the RAMC training camp at Alnwick.
On fatigue putting up goal posts in the morning. Had haircut in the afternoon. Football match between Alnwick and camp. Fish† got his nose hurt. In town at night and had supper at a café. Read all the afternoon. Saw the Misses Mack but didn’t speak.
Received postcard from Ernie to say he would not be stopping at Alnmouth. Walked into town. Heard that the Misses Mack were in town again.
Ernie & Hilda left St. Andrews1 & returned to Sunderland.
“.. left St Andrews” appears to mean permanent return to Sunderland; Ernie is “at the shop”, sc. Hills’, on 19 February 1916. See also Family page. ↩
On fatigue as usual. Went to the pictures at night with Black and his girl. Picture a sequel to the one last night.