On duty in the cellar of the hospital. Felt pretty seedy but managed all right.
The bearers went up the line.
Temperature ran up at night.
Category Archives: October 1916
20 October 1916; Friday
Up in the morning. Captain MacCombie† turned up and he marked me to attend. I helped them in the ward in the afternoon.
19 October 1916; Thursday
Felt a good bit better and was up part of the day. Corporal Chapman went out. A Canadian next to me. A lot of Canadians in the hospital. Most of them funny. One or two cheeky.
18 October 1916; Wednesday
Felt a bit under the weather in the morning and paraded sick with a temperature of 1001. Sent to bed in hospital instead of as orderly as I wished. Lay in bed all day. Felt pretty rotten. Corporal Chapman next to me.
100°F is about 37.8°C. ALL was evidently still running a slight fever, though we don’t know why. ↩
17 October 1916; Tuesday
Left Authie about 9.30. Part of the morning† Harry Bascombe left at the hospital in the village. Had to wait several times for the Division to move and in one place had to put off our pack and push the waggons up a very steep bank. Marched about 9 miles. Arrived at Val de Maison1 about 4 o’clock. I felt pretty rotten and got down in a tent† *.
Temperature 101.4 at night2.
Val de Maison: presumably the Val de Maison (B) in Michelin map square G7, 3km E. of N25, mid-way between Doullens and Amiens, 9 miles/14.5km from Authie (A); it would be about 20km march from Val de Maison to the Brickfields camp at Albert on 23 October. ↩
“Temperature”: Presumably ALL’s body temperature. 101.4°F is c. 38.5°C – a moderate fever – the malaise causing this fever is not specified. ↩
16 October 1916; Monday
Up at about 8 o’clock. I lay in last. Had good breakfast including Quaker Oats and bacon and bread. A party relieved us in the afternoon and after tea we returned in a motorcar to Authie and I slept by Ike again.
A mouse or something ran over my foot at night.
15 October 1916; Sunday
Up at 7.30. Got breakfast including Quaker Oats. Didn’t eat much but read Tom Brown at Oxford1. Paddy not very well.
Tom Brown at Oxford: A novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861; sequel to the better-known Tom Brown’s School Days. See also Tom Brown at Oxford and Arthur Linfoot’s Library. ↩
Tom Brown at Oxford
Tom Brown at Oxford is a novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861. It is a sequel to the better-known Tom Brown’s School Days.
Tom Brown’s School Days culminates in Tom’s graduation from Rugby, having become an honourable Christian gentleman who embodies Dr. Arnold’s ideal of “muscular Christianity”. This little known sequel tells of Tom’s university life, until the completion of his M.A. degree and marriage, and his continuing development as a Christian gentleman.
The book was out of print for many years but is now available again in both print and electronic book versions.
Arthur Linfoot wrote that he had read Tom Brown at Oxford on 15th October 1916, while stationed at Authie in Northern France.
14 October 1914; Saturday
Up at 7.30. Rather short of rations. Had breakfast, and then just lay about and read. Harman and I went over to * * * * and got a loaf of bread and some biscuits. Talk of going over the top on this part of the line. The rats very lively at night.
13 October 1916; Friday
Up at 7.30. Put on the water job and taken off again and away in the motor-car to Sailly-au-Bois1 to a dugout. Sergeant Fraser, Harman, Truman, Axley and some. Cleaned up the place and had dinner and tea there. †All of us† very busy. I wrote a few letters and wrote up diary.