Up at usual time. Usual day. Not much to do.
22 February 1917; Thursday
Up at usual time and spent usual day.
21 February 1917; Wednesday
Up at 7 o’clock. Dim and dull weather. Medical Officer very late in getting round.
20 February 1917; Tuesday
Up at 7 o’clock. Usual day. Had some fun in the tent at night. Read a piece of picture papers. Heavy gunfire during the night. News of advance nearer Kut1.
Kut-al-Amara, Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), previously the location of a British army garrison, had fallen to Ottoman forces in April 1916. ↩
19 February 1917; Monday
18 February 1917; Sunday
Day’s work as usual. Went to Y M at night and heard a Scotsman preaching. The service a pleasant change.
17 February 1917; Saturday
At work as usual. Frost again and heavy rain.
16 February 1917; Friday
Usual day’s work. Frost easier and rain fell.
15 February 1917; Thursday
Up at 7.20. 19 in my tent. Finer morning, though still frosty.
14 February 1917; Wednesday
Up shortly before 7 o’clock. Fed tent. Washed and shaved as usual and got ready for M O. Frost again, but fine morning.
Went to Lealvillers at night to the aerodrome picture house. Concert by the Naval Division Follies. A lot of nonsense.