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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
38th Canadian Infantry Battalion original

(Erase heading not required.)

Army Form C. 2118.

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

Bourgeois 1 Battalion PLATOON COMPETITION. Right Company and Headquarters at baths. RSC
BELGIUM Weather - fine and clear.

2 Left Company and Transport Section at baths during morning. Finals in Platoon Competition
held on Battalion Parade Ground, and won by No. 3 Platoon; Second - No. 2 Platoon;
Third - No. 8 Platoon. Weather - clear.

3 Battalion Parade at 9 o'clock in P.T.Kit, and taken for cross country run. Battalion RSC
alotted seats at 75th Bn. Concert at GENVAL in evening. Educational classes held.
Weather - clear.

4 Battalion again taken for cross country run at 9.00 hours in P.T.Dress. Educational
classes held between 11.00 and 12.00 hours. Weather - clear. RSC

5 Battalion Parrade held on Grand Place, at 8.45 hours. Full programme of sports run off
on Brigade Parade Field in afternoon, in the valley, and very successful. Headquarters
won first place, in points, by a narrow margin over Right Company. Horse-back wrestling RSC
won by team from 72nd Battalion. One hundred yards dash, won by Captain (Rev.) Wilkin,
4th C.Division Headquarters. Weather very clear and fine.

6. Church of England Serice held in Salle Crap at 9.15 hours RSC
Roman Catholic Service in Parish Church, BOURGEOIS, at 10.00 hours. Weather - rine and clear.

7 Battalion Parade held at 9.00 hours. Lecture by Major Beaton, Canadian Corps Y.M.C.A., RSC
explaining the working of the association during the war.
Sports in afternoon, in preparation for Brigade Field Day. Weather - clear. RSC

8 Left Company and Transport Section paraded to Battalion Headquarters to fill in and complete
Dispersal certificates.
Weather fine.

9 Right Company and Headquarters paraded to Battalion Orderly Room to complete Dispersal RSC
Certificates. Photographs taken of members of the original Battaion, and also all men who
were members of the Battalions of the American Legion. Weather - fine and clear.

10 Commanding Officer's Parade, Headquarters and Transport Section forming up as an
independent company. All ranks for discharge east of Ottawa, despatched to Battalions
being dispersed east of Ottawa this date, and men for discharge in our Dispersal Area, (No.9) RSC
were received from nearly all other Units of the Division. Weather - fine and clear.

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

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