Up at 7 o’clock. Went into town. Rained very heavily all day. Went for rations and got drenched. Didn’t go out at night, but stayed in the hut because it rained heavily.
All posts by Arthur Linfoot
27 October 1915; Wednesday
Got up about 7 o’clock. Went into the town and ordered some things. For rations as usual. Read a bit and wrote some letters.
German Cruiser Prince Adalbert1 class sunk in Baltic by British submarine.
Prinz Adalbert was a heavy cruiser (9,000 tons, 8.3” guns), and was torpedoed in the Baltic on 1 July by submarine E9, but repaired; soon after repair, on or around 23 October 1915, she was torpedoed by submarine E8, and sank with the loss of all but 3 of her 675 crew; the biggest single loss of life by the German fleet in the Baltic in WW1. ↩
26 October 1915; Tuesday
Up at 6.30. Went to the town in the morning and ordered some things. Went for rations in the afternoon and nearly had an accident coming back. Went to lecture at night in St James’ church hall on the war and its origin and it was very interesting and illustrated by lantern slides1.
Lantern slides were used to project large format photographic transparencies or other images onto a large screen using a device traditionally known as a magic lantern, an early form of slide projector. They remained popular until as recently as the 1950s when they began to be replaced by the much smaller 35mm format. ↩
25 October 1915; Monday
At work as usual. Another corporal took over the cook house and the mess book, but I received it back in the afternoon. He went with me to the station for the rations. Went to the lecture at night. Rather interesting. Two young ladies bandaged my arms, and then I did the arm of another young lady.
24 October 1915; Sunday
At the Presbyterian church in the morning and had a very good service. Wrote letters in the afternoon and then went to Mr Kyle’s to tea. At our own church in the evening. Mrs Kyle plays the organ at the church. At Kyles’ to tea.
23 October 1915; Saturday
At work as usual. And at station as usual. Went to the pictures at night with McNeil and another chap.
22 October 1915; Friday
At work as usual. At station in afternoon. In town at night. Not much to do. Read a lot of a story.
21 October 1915; Thursday
At work as before. At station as usual. Went to Mr and Mrs Dodds’ house at night and had a very pleasant evening. Played cards most of the time and had a good supper.
At Dodds’ House. Commenced N.C.O’s Mess.
20 October 1915; Wednesday
Work as before. At station again. Walked into the town at night.
19 October 1915; Tuesday
Work continued as before. At station in the afternoon. Rained most of the time. Went into town in the motor ambulance again.