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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.
Army Form C. 2118.

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

38th Batt Canadians

Page 10

Original Confidential
War Diary Month October, 1917

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

27th Cont.
With best wishes always and the best of luck to yourself and
all others in your Command,
I am, RSP.
Yours ever
(Signed) A.W. Currie
Lieut. General
Commanding Canadian Corps.

Lieut. Colonel C.M. Edwards, D.S.O.,
Commanding 38th Battalion
4th Canadian Division,
B. C. F.

28th In accordance with Operation Order no. 103, the Battalion moved to-day
from BRANDHOEK AREA to POTISZE AREA, one mile East of YPRES. Headquarters
near WHITE CHATEAU at 1.10 Central, reference Map ZONNEBEKE Sheet 28. RSP.
The new camp was reached at 4.30 P.M. the men being accomodated in
tents and improvized bivouac shelters constructed by the Advance Party. Weather RSP.
clear with bright moonlight, which enabled enemy aircraft to carry out
considerable bombing activity during the night.