13th March 1915
Heavy day with convoys, many severely wounded. Convoys 98.
14th March 1915 (Sunday)
Heavy day with convoys. 175 transferred as follows: 70 to Le Havre, 53 to England, 39 to Conv. Camp, 13 others. Convoys 69.
Saturday, 14 March 2015
Thursday, 12 March 2015
12th March 2015
Letters to Emma and Albert in the morning. P.C. to Lena. 100 wounded arrive during evening and nightime, mostly severely wounded. Convoys 106. Football match at Parc des Sports with No. 14 General Hosp., result 1 – 1. Drive route Wimereux and return to town via column de Victoire. The driver was very expert and though rather cold the drive round was very enjoyable. The men sang songs on the return journey, being very pleased at the result of the game.
Letters to Emma and Albert in the morning. P.C. to Lena. 100 wounded arrive during evening and nightime, mostly severely wounded. Convoys 106. Football match at Parc des Sports with No. 14 General Hosp., result 1 – 1. Drive route Wimereux and return to town via column de Victoire. The driver was very expert and though rather cold the drive round was very enjoyable. The men sang songs on the return journey, being very pleased at the result of the game.
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Monday, 9 March 2015
9th March 1915
Saw gardener and bought plants, seeds etc Extract from a letter to Arthur, "One of the bright sides of the picture now up before the World’s view is the awakening of so many men and women to their responsibilities as citizens and as units of a Nation. Many a slacker has been stirred from somnolence, many weedy youths are casting their cigarettes to take up the rifle, casting slothful habits to take up the benefits to be received from discipline and drill. Many from the factory, the desk, the workshop, the sweater's den, on whom has hovered the horrible doom of tuberculosis or the cheerlessness and monotony of, incessant toil in order that they may be permitted to exist, have for a time cast these bonds, because to their depths has descended the clarion's call, ‘Your Country Needs You', and because they have heard this call and have answered it, they are just finding there is a need for them in the World, their poor hearts are stirred at the thought, their minds take up new interests, they feel themselves as men and not as slaves, their bodies grow stronger and they say to themselves, ‘If I come out of this I will strive to improve my position in life when I return.”
Convoy 18. (This is assumed to mean that road convoys brought in a total of 18 wounded that day. Similar cryptic notes appear hereafter.)
Saw gardener and bought plants, seeds etc Extract from a letter to Arthur, "One of the bright sides of the picture now up before the World’s view is the awakening of so many men and women to their responsibilities as citizens and as units of a Nation. Many a slacker has been stirred from somnolence, many weedy youths are casting their cigarettes to take up the rifle, casting slothful habits to take up the benefits to be received from discipline and drill. Many from the factory, the desk, the workshop, the sweater's den, on whom has hovered the horrible doom of tuberculosis or the cheerlessness and monotony of, incessant toil in order that they may be permitted to exist, have for a time cast these bonds, because to their depths has descended the clarion's call, ‘Your Country Needs You', and because they have heard this call and have answered it, they are just finding there is a need for them in the World, their poor hearts are stirred at the thought, their minds take up new interests, they feel themselves as men and not as slaves, their bodies grow stronger and they say to themselves, ‘If I come out of this I will strive to improve my position in life when I return.”
Convoy 18. (This is assumed to mean that road convoys brought in a total of 18 wounded that day. Similar cryptic notes appear hereafter.)
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