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Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence
Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs. Part II.
and the Staff Manual respectively. Title Pages
will be prepared in manuscript.

WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
(Erase heading not required.)

Army Form C. 2118.

Page 7

38th Canadians

Original Confidential
War Diary for month of March 1917

Place -- Date -- Hour -- Summary of Events and Information Remarks and references to Appendices

Trenches 1917 March 27 cont.

a height of probably fifty feet in No Man's Land and the
simultaneous subsidence of the ground left a hole
between 20 and 30 feet in diameter at about s.15.c.10.45.
It is worthy of note that the Artillery of the enemy
during the past 24 hours has shown greater activity
than previously. Several shells landed in the vicinity
of our Front Line and also in Zouave Valley. In the
course of the morning, quite a number of H.E. and
shrapnel were fired on our front line area. In the
afternoon Zouave Valley was heavily bombarded with
shrapnel and H.E., Ersatz Communication Tranch
at the West side of Zouave Valley being blown in
in two or three places. Our left front received
some attention from the enemy's Trench Mortars, a few
Whiz Bangs being thrown over in the morning. Our
working parties last night were fired on by Machine
Guns. Our Lewis and Brigade Machine guns fired
on two enemy machines that flew over our lines
this morning. When we made a trial last night
with coloured flares, the enemy evidently feared an

2449 Wt W14957/M90 750,000 1/16 J.B.C. & A. Forms/C.2118/12.

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