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Leave billets for Ploegsteert 430 -- Close the frontier into Belgium near Nieppe and are billeted in the "Piggeries" in the Bois de Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" of the Tommies) -- a model farm -- supposed to belong to King Albert -- cement floor pens, & feeding troughs. Four Canidan Privates alloted the space of one Flemish pig..Got bedded down at midnight but floow unconscionably hard & of course no blankets. Beautiful wooded country around here -- everywhere cut by Reserve trenches, barricades, redoubts and barb-wire. | Leave billets for Ploegsteert 430 -- Close the frontier into Belgium near Nieppe and are billeted in the "Piggeries" in the Bois de Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" of the Tommies) -- a model farm -- supposed to belong to King Albert -- cement floor pens, & feeding troughs. Four Canidan Privates alloted the space of one Flemish pig..Got bedded down at midnight but floow unconscionably hard & of course no blankets. Beautiful wooded country around here -- everywhere cut by Reserve trenches, barricades, redoubts and barb-wire. | ||
TUESDAY 6 [187-178] George V. married, 1893 | TUESDAY 6 [187-178] George V. married, 1893 | ||
| − | Our machine gun office struck by a stray bullet end of the Piggeries Road -- dies at dawn -- All in the Estaminet near by put under arrest on account of blaze being seen arising from chimney -- Explained later as caused by fat overturned in the stove. Chateau de la Hutte, | + | Our machine gun office struck by a stray bullet end of the Piggeries Road -- dies at dawn -- All in the Estaminet near by put under arrest on account of blaze being seen arising from chimney -- Explained later as caused by fat overturned in the stove. Chateau de la Hutte, back of Hyde Park |
| + | For shelled to pieces -- observation post of our artillery | ||
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Page57 Ploegsteert (Plug St)
14th, Mn's last qu. 5:54 a.m. JULY, 1915. [9th, Sun rises 3h. 56m. SUNDAY 4 [185-180] 5th after Trinity Independence Day, U.S.A. 1776
Church Parade -- compulsory -- get called down by Capt for asking permission to go to church at Steenwerck
MONDAY 5 [186-179]
Leave billets for Ploegsteert 430 -- Close the frontier into Belgium near Nieppe and are billeted in the "Piggeries" in the Bois de Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" of the Tommies) -- a model farm -- supposed to belong to King Albert -- cement floor pens, & feeding troughs. Four Canidan Privates alloted the space of one Flemish pig..Got bedded down at midnight but floow unconscionably hard & of course no blankets. Beautiful wooded country around here -- everywhere cut by Reserve trenches, barricades, redoubts and barb-wire.
TUESDAY 6 [187-178] George V. married, 1893
Our machine gun office struck by a stray bullet end of the Piggeries Road -- dies at dawn -- All in the Estaminet near by put under arrest on account of blaze being seen arising from chimney -- Explained later as caused by fat overturned in the stove. Chateau de la Hutte, back of Hyde Park For shelled to pieces -- observation post of our artillery
