Monday 15th
January 1917
8th
Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment are mostly resting in huts at
Noyelles-lès-Vermelles resting. The exception is one company closer to the
front line at Lancashire Trench. The adjutant has contacted me today to say
that at 10.30 this morning they were all ordered to stand to and another
company was sent up to support a planned attack. He went on, somewhat ruefully
that “as expected” the attack was cancelled but the unlucky company will not
return to rest until tomorrow. The weather has been frightful and this, no
doubt, was the reason for the attack’s cancellation.
Second Lieutenant H D Chester [X550/1/81]
The adjutant
of 2nd Battalion tells me that Second Lieutenant H D Chester was due back from
leave today. Unfortunately, however, he was been admitted to the Southern
General Hospital in Bristol.
