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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 December 1917

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

1917 Decem. LOZINGHEM 1917 Decem. 3 cont.
incensed at publication of Landsdowne's letter. RBO'S

4. Battalion paid. Hun planes active in adjoining areas
through preceding night
Weather. cold throughout day, the ground being white with
frost in the early morning. RBO'S

do 5 Brigade Headquarters paid. Hun plane over us for
over half an hour about 3 pm and as there were five
British planes between the Hun and his lines, the
men, keenly anticipated an aerial scrap, but there
was "nothing doing". Being 38th night of the 4th
Divisional Concert Party, a number of officers and
the majority of other ranks walked over to Au
CHEL and took the concert in. The hall was pack-
ed and included in the audience several represen-
tatives of Brigades' and Divisional staffs. The
programme was exceptionally good and every
item was enthusiastically encored. one item
not shown on the programme, was a Patriotic
stump speech by Canon Scott, who after eulogizing
the fighting work done by the Canadians and the
aims of the Union Government, emphasizing the
fact that the last thing he wanted to do, was t

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