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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.

38th Canadians

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

Page 50
Army Form C. 2118.

Original - Confidential
War Diary for the month of October 1916

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

Front Line 1917 Aug 24 cont.
at 9.30 pm appeared to be red flares. Considerable
movement around SALINE trench this afternoon gave indica-
tions of a relief being in progress. Practically no
enemy activity was observed throughout the day on the
front of our left Company or in vicinity of the GREEN
CRASSIER. RBO'S

Front Line 25
Batt. on Front Line.
A Patrol consisting of Lieut. J. G. Nicholson and four other
ranks left our line at N.26.c.70.80 at 1.00 a.m. and pro-
ceeded through March to RAILWAY EMBANKMENT, crawled
up the southern slope of embarkment at a point about
twenty five yards WEST of where ELK TRENCH joins the
Railway embankment. The party here saw apparently
a trench on the NORTHERN side of Bank on level with the
top of the bank. The patrol remained at this point for
observation purposed and within a few minutes were
challenged by a German sentry a few feet away in the
trench. The enemy immediately threw bombs to which
our patrol replied with Mills bombs, but owing to the
darkness it is impossible to state the result. The
enemy then threw bombs, apparently from another post
at approximately N.26.b.45.56. Flares were also sent up
from approximately where ELK TRENCH joins EMBANKMENT.
It would appear from this that enemy had at least
three posts in this vicinity. The patrol returned to our lines

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

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