At Church Parade & saw Charlie. Met him in the afternoon & he sang some things from Elijah1. Went to Inwoods’ to tea. Had music. At Communion Service. I left him at Soldiers’ Home at 10 o’clock.
Tag Archives: Inwood
4 September 1915; Saturday
Had breakfasts at 7 o’clock. Welsh Party left at about 7.30. Charlie came in the afternoon. Had photos taken1 and then spent most of the night at Inwoods’ singing and playing. Stayed until late & Charlie was locked out of S. [Soldiers’] Home & had to sleep in Guard Room.
The photo accompanying this diary entry is a postcard, posted on 7 September 1915 to ALL’s mother, with a message saying he was now a lance-corporal. It may be one of those taken on 4th September. ↩
31 August 1915; Tuesday
On parade in the morning. [2½ lines crossed out; in part apparently next day’s entry, inserted on wrong page.] On parade as usual. Went to Inwoods’ at night. Corporal Findlater there. Played a game or two. Miss Inwood still away. In the cookhouse all day and it is a rotten job.
29 August 1915; Sunday
At church parade in the morning with over-coats. At Inwoods’ to tea and supper with Hoare and a lot of other soldiers. Played a bit. Miss Inwood away for the weekend.
27 August 1915; Friday
25 August 1915; Wednesday
Drilled all day. Went to Mr Inwood’s at night with Dunn. I played the piano. Miss Inwood sang some songs and we were still getting on with the Concones1 when some other soldiers came and we played other things. Got to know I was to be on guard tomorrow.
At Inwoods’2 with Dunn.
“Concones”: widely-used singing exercises by the Italian composer and teacher, Giuseppe Concone; used by Charlie with ALL at home. ↩
See page: Church – Who were they? ↩
23 August 1915; Monday
Had drill after dinner. Had to wash out rooms first thing and only paraded at 7 and 10. Inspected by General of Northern Command in the morning. Out with Dunn, Moil and another chap at night. Visited the reading room at the Wesleyan chapel. Miss Inwood walked in and spoke for a minute. Received postcard from Charlie saying he would try to get across to see me.
[Written at foot of previous day’s page - ] Monday. Received news of the battle in the Baltic1. The Molke [sic] sunk by a British submarine and 2 or 3 cruisers and 8 German destroyers destroyed or damaged by the Russians, who lost one ship.
The Battle of the Gulf of Riga was a major engagement between the German High Seas Fleet and the Russian Baltic Fleet, but British vessels were involved. The Moltke was indeed torpedoed on 19 August by the British submarine E1, but did not sink, was repaired in Hamburg, and survived Jutland and other engagements, to be scuttled at Scapa Flow at the end of the War. Moltke had previously been involved in several other incidents noted in the diaries, including the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Raid on Yarmouth, the Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby and the Battle of Dogger Bank. ↩
22 August 1915; Sunday
Had church parade in the morning. To Inwoods’ to tea and supper. At church at night. Fine day. Spent afternoon at the Soldiers’ Home.
[The entry for Monday 23 August is continued on the lower part of this page.]
17 August 1915; Tuesday
On parade as usual. Went in to Wesleyan Soldiers’ room. Miss Inwood1 came in. We had a long talk before I went with her to their house. She told me she was 18 and that she was training to be a school teacher, and I told her all sorts of things about home and such like. Stayed to supper.
See page: Church – Who were they? ↩
15 August 1915; Sunday
At church parade in the morning. Mr Cannon preaching and he was above ordinary missioner class, but a bit noisy. At the first men’s meeting in the afternoon and to Inwoods’ to tea and supper. At church at night again.