He amends the days to correspond with the dates but appears to start one day out on 22 April 1915, which he has annotated as a Friday when in fact it was a Thursday. He corrects this in May. All his entries will be shown in this blog as he wrote the. Some will have been written in real time , others no doubt were only added shortly after the date.
His first entry records his departure with the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards from Wellington Barracks in order to sail to France on the evening of 22 April 1915.
Exactly 100 years ago today:
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