Up at 7 o’clock and on parade and duty at 8 o’clock. Heard that Walsh, Stothard & Gilmour were killed¹ and Whittaker badly wounded. Fine day. Good news from all the battle front. John Dory went on leave.

1. 341610 Private John Edward Walsh, 76886 Private William Stothard and 46674 Private Dennis Gilmour (the prior three links are to records on the Commonweath War Graves Commission site), all of the 58th Field Ambulance, had apparently been killed on 3 September.

   Privates Stothard and Gilmour are also listed on Lives of the First World War; Private Walsh is not. ↩