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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 57
Army Form C. 2118.

Original - Confidential
War Diary Month August 1917

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

Front Line 1917 Aug 26 cont.
to where the DIGBY ROAD crosses same. The bridge is
intact. The enemy has strong heavy wire entangle-
ments of heavy wire about 25 feet wide along here.
Across the river the wire is about forty feet wide and
well placed. The river from N.26.d.80.50 to the DIGBY
Road bridge is about fourteen feet wide and the water
from four to six feet deep in height. This wire could easily
be destroyed by hand or by explosives. The river turns
at the bridge and goes NORTH WEST alongside the Rail-
way Embankment where it widens and forms a
water course of about thirty feet wide to about N.26.
b.80.30. where it narrows again. The wire runs
more or less parallel with, or on, the DIGBY ROAD, at
N.26.d.25.95. there is a space of thirty to forty yards
left open and unwired. I crossed over to the
Railway EMbankment to N.27.c.35.80 and observed a
German sentry on the other side of the embankment.
He saw me and opened fire. As I was alone, I crept
back to the wire, from which point I could see four
of the enemy on the Embankment, only one of them,
however, kept firing at me. The first shot was fired
at a distance of about sixteen (16) yards.

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