Thursday 27th
December 1917
The 6th
Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment is finding working parties near Locre. The
adjutant has let me know that a case of dysentery has been diagnosed. This is a
worry for the Battalion and those around them as this disease, so prevalent in
army camps in days gone-by, is a killer and so easily transmitted by infected
water.
8th Battalion,
in camp at Berles-au-Bois, which it moved to yesyerday from
Courcelles-le-Comte, received orders at 10 a.m. that it must be prepared to
move at three hours’ notice. Companies were warned of this but the usual parades
were carried out until 11.30 a.m. when orders were received from divisional
headquarters to move back to Courcelles-le-Comte
At 2.15 p.m.
the battalion moved off by route march to Courcelles through Ransart, Adinfer
and Ayette. On arrival at 6 p.m. it was found that the billets alloted to the
battalion were very much scattered - Battalion Headquarters and C Company being
in No 4 Camp, A and B Companies were under canvas and D Company being in a hut
in No 1 Camp. The huts taken over were in a bad condition having no stoves or
inner lining to them.
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