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Diary entries written while Arthur Linfoot was stationed at various military hospitals in France.

10 February 1917; Saturday

10 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, HospitalArthur Linfoot

Up at 7 o’clock. Usual day’s work. DMS ¹ paid a flying visit to the tent. Frost still holding.

“DMS”: Director of Medical Services ↩

9 February 1917; Friday

9 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, HospitalArthur Linfoot

Up at 7 o’clock. Work as usual. Frost still holding.

8 February 1917; Thursday

8 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, HospitalArthur Linfoot

Up at 7 o’clock. Work as usual. Frost still holding.

7 February 1917; Wednesday

7 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, HospitalArthur Linfoot

Up at 7 o’clock. On duty as usual after breakfast. A lot of aeroplane activity overhead and a dud dropped near the camp. Fine day, but very cold and frosty. A chap in my tent killed a rat first thing.

6 February 1917; Tuesday

6 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, Current affairs, HospitalArthur Linfoot

Up at 7 o’clock. Busy all day as usual. Finished about 7 o’clock. Had a man very ill with pleurisy and had him taken over to the building.

Billy Truman got other three leave cards with another at the billet last thing.

Heard that President Wilson¹ had withdrawn his ambassador and that Count Bernstorff² had been given his passport. A lot of talk of war between USA and Germany.

President Woodrow Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on 3rd February 1917 following the latter’s decision to re-introduce a policy of unrestricted U-boat warfare two days earlier; see yesterday’s diary entry. The text of President Wilson’s speech to Congress announcing this development is available here. ↩
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (14 November 1862 – 6 October 1939) was a German politician and the ambassador to the United States from 1908 to 1917. ↩

5 February 1917; Monday

5 February 17February 1917Acheux-en-Amiénois, Current affairs, Hospital, Naval warfareArthur Linfoot

Up as usual. Busy all day. Billy Truman received orders to go on leave and cleared off after dinner. I took over his tent for a short time and then Harvey came up to it.

Heard of the Germans’ submarine scheme¹ and war demands of America.

Germany had resumed unrestricted submarine warfare on 1st February. Unrestricted submarine warfare had previously been Germany’s policy, but this policy had been quietly discontinued in late 1915 following the aftermath of the sinking of the Lusitania. ↩