Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 20

• February 1, 2018 17:29:35 Annick Rodriguez

  from the castle to make a fire

  and by this time we were able to Write

  home for a cake and a tin of Milk

  but they had not started arriving

  yet anyway we had a Pleasant 2 Day

  stay here and then we moved off

  again on he March this time

  it was a 25 Kilometer March to the

  Next stopping place over cobbled

  Roads all the way and carrying

  our fall kit it was a very tiresome

  March we arrived at a Place called

  St Hillare another Village in the

  Mining District of Northern Flanders

  and here we were Put in old Barns

  and the Bats oh dear it was alive

  with them as soon as you laid down

  at night they would be running all

  over you and squeelling all night

  Long and they would run along the

  rafters and fall on your face we

  stayed here for 4 nights having

  Inspections and Parades and Making

  sure we had still got our Iron Ration

  Specially the Biscuits which had now

  to be put together like a jig saw

  puzzle o see whether they were all

  there one Fellow had one short and

  he got 4 Days First Field Punishment

  which meant being tied to a Wagon

  Wheel for 2 Hours a Day Legs and

  Arms stretched out and  Tied to the

  spokes of the Wheel so it made

  you very careful about losing them 

• February 1, 2018 17:29:17 Annick Rodriguez

  from the castle to make a fire

  and by this time we were able to Write

  home for a cake and a tin of Milk

  but they had not started arriving

  yet anyway we had a Pleasant 2 Day

  stay here and then we moved off

  again on he March this time

  it was a 25 Kilometer March to the

  Next stopping place over cobbled

  Roads all the way and carrying

  our fall kit it was a very tiresome

  March we arrived at a Place called

  St Hillare another Village in the

  Mining District of Northern Flanders

  and here we were Put in old Barns

  and the Bats oh dear it was alive

  with them as soon as you laid down

  at night they would be running all

  over you and squeelling all night

  Long and they would run along the

  rafters and fall on your face we

  stayed here for 4 nights having

  Inspections and Parades and Making

  sure we had still got our Iron Ration

  Specially the Biscuits which had now

  to be put together like a jig saw

  puzzle o see whether they were all

  there one Fellow had one short and

  he got 4 Days First Field Punishment

  which meant being tied to a Wagon

  Wheel for 2 Hours a Day Legs and

  Arms stretched out and  Tied to the

  spokes of the Wheel so it made

  you very careful about losing them

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:28:29 Annick Rodriguez

  from the castle to make a fire

  and by this time we were able to Write

  home for a cake and a tin of Milk

  but they had not started arriving

  yet anyway we had a Pleasant 2 Day

  stay here and then we moved off

  again on he March this time

  it was a 25 Kilometer March to the

  Next stopping place over cobbled

  Roads all the way and carrying

  our fall kit it was a very tiresome

  March we arrived at a Place called

  St Hillare another Village in the

  Mining District of Northern Flanders

  and here we were Put in old Barns

  and the Bats oh dear it was alive

  with them as soon as you laid down

  at night they would be running all

  over you and squeelling all night

  Long and they would run along the

  rafters and fall on your face we

  stayed here for 4 nights having

  Inspections and Parades an Making

  sure we had still got our Iron Ration

  Specially the Biscuits which had now

  to be put together like a jig saw

  puzzle o see whether they were all

  there one Fellow had one short and

  he got 4 Days First Field Punishment

  which meant being tied to a Wagon

  Wheel for 2 Hours a Day Legs and

  Arms stretched out and  Tied to the

  spokes of the Wheel so it made

  you very careful about losing them

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:24:08 Annick Rodriguez

  from the castle to make a fire

  and by this time we were able to Write

  home for a cake and a tin of Milk

  but they had not started arriving

  yet anyway we had a Pleasant 2 Day

  stay here and then we moved off

  again on he March this time

  it was a 25 Kilometer March to the

  Next stopping place over cobbled

  Roads all the way and carrying

  our fall kit it was a very tiresome

  March we arrived at a Place called

  St Hillare another Village in the

  Mining District of Northern Flanders

  and here we were Put in old Barns

  and the Bats oh dear it was alive

  with them as soon as you laid down

  at night they would be running all

  over you and squeelling all night

  Long and they would run along the

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:21:28 Annick Rodriguez

  from the castle to make a fire

  and by this time we were able to Write

  home for a cake and a tin of Milk

  but they had not started arriving

  yet anyway we had a Pleasant 2 Day

  stay here and then we moved off

  again on he March this time

  it was a 25 Kilometer March to the

  Next stopping place over cobbled

  Roads all the way and carrying

  our fall kit it was a very tiresome

  
  

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