38th CEF War Diary

WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Army Form C. 2118.

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38th Battalion Canadians

Original Confidential

War Diary for the month of November 1916

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

Somme Front -- 1 -- -- Front 1916 Nov. 1 Transport Lines at Tara Hill - Battalion in Chalk Pits. Working parties supplied - Wet weather. -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 2 -- -- Paymaster at Chalk Pits to pay Batt but orders having been received that Batt. would return to trenches that afternoon, pay was postponed - Brigade staff paid - Wet weather. -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 3 -- -- Batt. returned from trenches to Transport Lines - Wet. -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 4 -- -- Batt. received issue of clean clothing and paraded to battle in Albert - Part of Battalion paid before being moved to Bouzincourt at 2.30 pm - Wet. -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 5 -- -- Batt. at Bouzincourt - Paid by P.M. - High wind. -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 6 -- -- Batt. at Bouzincourt - Wet weather - Hostile airmen exploded trench ammunition dump - Heavy hostile shelling of vicinity of Transport lines - High explosive calibre - Bombs dropped in lines - No casualties - Tents nearly blown over by concussions - Short of coal and wood -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 7 -- -- Batt at Bouzincourt - Wet weather - Our gains in vicinity very active through the day & preceding night -- RBOS

Somme Front -- 8 -- -- Batt. at B - Showers through the day - Mutual firing in evening and night. -- RBOS

Lt Col. Commander, 38th Battn Canadians