Category Archives: December 1914

All diary entries written in December 1914.

3 December 1914; Thursday

December 1914,

Got total out at work and it is right. Went down to Endeavour after reading a bit. Came round by myself. Bonny night but rather wild. Read a bit.

The King spent a few days at the front about this time1.

  1. George V visited the Western Front for the first time in December 1914 and again on several later occasions. On one such visit in 1915 he was thrown from his horse and seriously injured. ↩

2 December 1914; Wednesday

December 1914,

Busy at work. Got books well up to date. Went down to drill at night. Billy Wayman joined our lot. First time I have spoken to him since he left the Paper Works1. Had a real soldier showing us how to go about it. Called in at Grandmother’s last thing. She is not so well.

De Wet2 captured.

  1. Billy Wayman had evidently left the Paper Works on 31 October. ↩

  2. Christiaan Rudolf de Wet was a Boer general and rebel leader in the Maritz Rebellion of 1914 in which men who supported the recreation of a Boer South African Republic rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa.  ↩