John Moyle War Diary
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breaking up. Cycled out to WANQUETIN & had tea with Capt Slade. In evening motored with Slade into H.Q. Saw the C.O. & dined with him, a most enjoyable evening. Plenty of wine & cigars. C.O. most charming & Slade & I are both having a Colbrook Coy of 500 men each. Cycled back from WANQUETIN without a light but the flashes of our guns & Duty lights, etc showed me the way. Peterson returned. Slept on floor O.K. | breaking up. Cycled out to WANQUETIN & had tea with Capt Slade. In evening motored with Slade into H.Q. Saw the C.O. & dined with him, a most enjoyable evening. Plenty of wine & cigars. C.O. most charming & Slade & I are both having a Colbrook Coy of 500 men each. Cycled back from WANQUETIN without a light but the flashes of our guns & Duty lights, etc showed me the way. Peterson returned. Slept on floor O.K. | ||
| − | May 11th Very busy packing up. Very hot. Motored in H.Q. with Cpl Mulen & also brought him back. Everything there | + | May 11th Very busy packing up. Very hot. Motored in H.Q. with Cpl Mulen & also brought him back. Everything there in a state chaos. Ball, orderly room Sgt, sent to his Coy for duty. |
May 12th Very heavy bombardment on. Very ?. Very busy packing up. | May 12th Very heavy bombardment on. Very ?. Very busy packing up. | ||
May 13 (Sun) Rainy day. Handed over to Lieu Willcocks for Cpt Brook of 154 ColbrookCoy. No longer O/C B Coy. Celebrated evening with Lieu Peterson, Lieu Wilcocks & Lieu Jamison on behalf of my late Staff C.S.M. Thornburrow, Cpl Mulen etc, a very nice time. Heavy rain & heavy | May 13 (Sun) Rainy day. Handed over to Lieu Willcocks for Cpt Brook of 154 ColbrookCoy. No longer O/C B Coy. Celebrated evening with Lieu Peterson, Lieu Wilcocks & Lieu Jamison on behalf of my late Staff C.S.M. Thornburrow, Cpl Mulen etc, a very nice time. Heavy rain & heavy | ||
Revision as of Nov 28, 2015, 4:05:08 PM
breaking up. Cycled out to WANQUETIN & had tea with Capt Slade. In evening motored with Slade into H.Q. Saw the C.O. & dined with him, a most enjoyable evening. Plenty of wine & cigars. C.O. most charming & Slade & I are both having a Colbrook Coy of 500 men each. Cycled back from WANQUETIN without a light but the flashes of our guns & Duty lights, etc showed me the way. Peterson returned. Slept on floor O.K.
May 11th Very busy packing up. Very hot. Motored in H.Q. with Cpl Mulen & also brought him back. Everything there in a state chaos. Ball, orderly room Sgt, sent to his Coy for duty.
May 12th Very heavy bombardment on. Very ?. Very busy packing up.
May 13 (Sun) Rainy day. Handed over to Lieu Willcocks for Cpt Brook of 154 ColbrookCoy. No longer O/C B Coy. Celebrated evening with Lieu Peterson, Lieu Wilcocks & Lieu Jamison on behalf of my late Staff C.S.M. Thornburrow, Cpl Mulen etc, a very nice time. Heavy rain & heavy