Up about 7 o’clock. Double1 at 7.15. On parade at 9 o’clock. Spent afternoon reading and writing letters.
Yearly Archives: 2017
14 November 1917; Wednesday
Up at 7 o’clock. Paraded with full packs at 9 o’clock. Helped Sergeant Powell with the panniers. Spent the afternoon cleaning up kit and having hair cut. Received letters from Joe, George Crawford and Metgrave. Finished letter to Leishman.
13 November 1917; Tuesday
Up about 7 o’clock. Paraded in the morning . Went through panniers with Ben Jenkins. Spent afternoon writing and walked to Hazebrouck at night and back again. Pay parade before dinner.
12 November 1917; Monday
Up about 7 o’clock. On parade in the morning and did nothing else all day. Read part of the paper and had a long walk at night.
11 November 1917; Sunday
Up at 7 o’clock. Walked through to Hazebrouck in the afternoon and returned pretty early. Had a good supper at the little house near our billet.
10 November 1917; Saturday
Up shortly after 6 o’clock. Raining all morning. Got ready for parade at 9.15. Marched to Bailleul station. Had train to near Hazebr.<ouck> and marched to Wallon Cappell1. Our billets just outside the village.
9 November 1917; Friday
Up about 6 o’clock. Marched from Kemmel at 9.45. Arrived outside Bailleul at about 1 o’clock. Cleaned up and wrote some letters. Went into Bailleul with Harvey and Holman and had a good tea, then went into the concert hall and enjoyed the concert. The 63rd Divisional party. Returned to camp shortly before 9 o’clock.
8 November 1917; Thursday
Up about 7 o’clock. On parade at 9 o’clock. Helped to pack in the morning. Got pass to Bailleul in the afternoon but Ernie didn’t turn up there so I only went into Locre. Returned in good time.
Heard of the death of Willie Whittaker 1 in a letter from Ernie.
ALL also recorded this in a note added to his diary on the date of Willie Whittaker’s death, 22 October 1917. ↩
Sunderland Daily Echo 8 November 1917
ROLL OF HONOUR
Image and text via the British Newspaper Archive.
WHITTAKER – – Killed in action October 22nd1, 1917 aged 22 years, 2nd-Lieut, William Gaylard Whittaker2, Northumberland Fusiliers, dearly loved son of William and Agnes Whittaker.
See ALL’s retrospective note of W’s death on 22 October – coincidentally, the news actually reached ALL on 8 November, the same day that W’s name appeared in this Roll of Honour in the Sunderland Daily Echo. ↩
See also: William Gaylard Whittaker at Lives of the First World War. ↩
7 November 1917; Wednesday
Up about 6 o’clock after a poor night’s rest. Relieved about 10.15 and arrived at headquarters about noon. On parade in the afternoon for inspection before leaving Kemmel. Wrote letter at night.