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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.

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38th Canadians

Original Confidential

War Diary Month June 1917

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

Zouave Valley 1917 June 9 cont.
Oper Order no 80..
Extract. "The 38th Batt. will move from its present loction
to Berthonval Wood leaving here today at 7 pm." RBO'S

Berthonval Wood do 10
Batt. at BERTHONVAL WOOD. Heavy fog in morning. Training. RBO'S

do 11 Very heavy rains about 4 am. Draft of 135 O.R. arrived
in evening. Oper. Order no 81, issued. Extracts follow.
The 38th Batt. will move tomorrow the 12th inst. from BERTHONVAL
WOOD to the Front Line taking over Centre Sub-sector from S.6.b
8.8. to N.36.b.8.3. now held by the 75th Batt., starting at 8.30 pm.
No movement over ridge before 9.45 pm. After relief, Front Line
Battalions will read just frontage after which 38th Batt. will hold
from Clark Tranch (exclusive) to French Junction at M.36.d.55.85.

do 12 Batt. at Berthonval Wood. Training with aeroplanes working.
Draft being outfitted at Transport Lines & billeted in Carency.
Huns dropped shell E. of lines across the road. Their aero-

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