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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 C2118.

Page 18
Original - Confidential
38th Canadians War Diary Month May 1917

Place Date Hour Summary of Events and Information 19 Remarks and
references to
Appendices

Vimy 1917 May 6 cont.
Brigade. As enemy movement in his front line area was
more than usual. Our snipers found many targets for ? fire.
Hostile retaliation last night was light so far as artillery is con-
cerned in the area of the left subsector, only a few light shells
being distributed over our front lines. From midnight un-
til 7 am, however, enemy artillery activity was above nor-
mal and consisted of 77's - 4.2's and 5.9's on the roads
marking our flanks as well as on our front and support
lines. Some direct hits were made on trenches, but no
casualties were caused. These bombardments opened at
intervals during the night and continued as a rule,
approximately, for an hour. Many flares were dis-
charged by the enemy, red, green, golden sprays & white.
An effort was made to determine the signals represented
in each of these, but without satisfactory results. During
the day, considerable air bursting shrapnel has been burst

2449 Wt W14957/M90 750,000 1/16 J.B.C. & A. Forms/C.2118/13.