27th September 1914 (Sunday)
Breakfast with the Sergeants in bell tent formed into a sort of Mess. 100 patients from No.12 Stat Hosp sent home. Large numbers of civilians visit hospital.
Saturday 27 September 2014
Friday 26 September 2014
Thursday 25 September 2014
Wednesday 24 September 2014
24th September 1914
Letter sent to Lena. Watch French soldiers in the workshop manufacturing mess tins. Round the walls of the cavalry stables are placed various names, it would appear that each horse has a favourite name. Fine sunny weather continues. Have a lesson in French from a French Cavalryman. Met Tunnicliffe at the Bazaar (market), he lost his unit (5th Lancers) a week ago.
Letter sent to Lena. Watch French soldiers in the workshop manufacturing mess tins. Round the walls of the cavalry stables are placed various names, it would appear that each horse has a favourite name. Fine sunny weather continues. Have a lesson in French from a French Cavalryman. Met Tunnicliffe at the Bazaar (market), he lost his unit (5th Lancers) a week ago.
Tuesday 23 September 2014
23rd September 1914
French troops going through infantry drill. Heard the Artillery trumpeters at practice. Bright sunny weather, cool in the morning and evening.
Met here at LE MANS Sgt Major of Royal Fling Corps and he told me that he was awarded a French honour for valour. Apparently there have been no aviators among the British who have met with any ordinary flying accident, which appears remarkable in view of the fact that before the war we read every week of officers being killed by flying accidents over Salisbury. Although we saw numbers of aviators every day I never saw one come to grief in a flying accident. The Sgt Major of the RFC said that he placed steel sheets in the seats of the aeroplane for protection and at his own suggestion.
I hear it was at these barracks that Dreyfus was stationed before the trial. Hear of the capture of 10,00 Germans and 30,000 Austrians by the Russians.
French troops going through infantry drill. Heard the Artillery trumpeters at practice. Bright sunny weather, cool in the morning and evening.
Met here at LE MANS Sgt Major of Royal Fling Corps and he told me that he was awarded a French honour for valour. Apparently there have been no aviators among the British who have met with any ordinary flying accident, which appears remarkable in view of the fact that before the war we read every week of officers being killed by flying accidents over Salisbury. Although we saw numbers of aviators every day I never saw one come to grief in a flying accident. The Sgt Major of the RFC said that he placed steel sheets in the seats of the aeroplane for protection and at his own suggestion.
I hear it was at these barracks that Dreyfus was stationed before the trial. Hear of the capture of 10,00 Germans and 30,000 Austrians by the Russians.
Monday 22 September 2014
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