All his journal entries are in my book "World War 1 - An Unkept Promise" on Kindle or paperback "The Great Promise" on Amazon Available in US, UK, EU.
May 1st to 4th
May 1st to 4th
We
were still in same position. The hostile shelling never ceases, day or night.
We
fire mostly by aeroplane wireless - attacks and counter attacks twice daily.
Batteries
on our left seem to get it jolly hot, but in spite of the gases and their
preponderance of artillery, we are informed that we have stopped the march on
CALAIS.
We
were ordered to move with Lahore Division, (which was now sadly depleted in
numbers) to move on the night of the 4th.
I
was billeting and Mr Donahue and I left about 5 pm, and eventually, after a
hard ride, found billets some 1.5 miles from Ypres in a village I never knew
the name of. I left at midnight to conduct the Battery.
It
was raining all night and I tied my horse to the railings of a churchyard,
determined to get a drink somewhere and something to eat. After a while I came
on an establishment and vigorously knocked, which was opened by a Staff
Officer. I told him I wanted something to eat and drink. He was very good and
took me inside and fixed me up.
I
left refreshed, While it was still raining and cold; I eventually met the
Battery about 6 o'clock.
I
got some breakfast from the Officer's cooks of the Ammunition Column and then
had a sleep about 10 am.
