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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.

Page 4

38th Canadians

Original Confidential
War Diary January 1918

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

MERICOURT SECTOR 1918 Jan 11 cont
Enemy flare activity normal. There was nothing to report
by party that patrolled our wires during the entire
night. Weather:- Mild early in forenoon. Began
to rain at 11 am. Men in Transport clearing out
new quarters & making themselves comfortable. RBO'S

do 12 Our patrols carried out their accustomed duties.
Both artilleries normal Weather favourable RBO'S

do 13 At one o'clock in the morning (Zero hour?) the 44th
Can. Inf. Batt, immediately on our left, carried out a
raid. Some of the 38th Officers and men obtained
a good view of the venture, from the top of the fire
steps of the Inarries? A short, sharp, but compara-
tively light barrage was put on, and the shells
were readily observed bursting in and adjacent to
the enemy's front line. The Hun S.O.S. signals
were in immediate evidence, but their artillery
was very slow in replying, givign the 44th men
plenty of time to complete their work and regain
their own line. Weather at the time of the raid was
fair and mild. Five Fighting Patrols were sent out
during the preceeding night. The first, consisting of
one officer and twenty other ranks, the second, 1 officer

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

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