Diary of Apcar Leslie De Vine, 6 August 1915 - 17 May 1916 - Part 4 of 6

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
Part of Quest:
Apcar Leslie De Vine Diaries
Subject:
  • ANZAC
Status:
Finalised
Accession number:
RCDIG0000331
Difficulty:

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military grave yard at Tel-el-Kebir  
where the men who
fell in the battle are buried

6/1/16 Did not go on parade 
tody ,  rained this afternoon
vy cold & windy 
  
7/1/16 Did not go on parde
tody , rained heavy this 
afternoon.  paid today £. 5 - 2 -7 
  
8/1/16 Rained heavy during the
night , vy long tody , no 
early morning parade, drizzled
during afternoon, Flyer & a
parcell arrived tody
  
9/1/16  Sunday   Did not
attend church parade tody .
mucky day tody 

10/1/16 . Heavy dy 4 parades
rainy morng.  physical drill 6.30
7.30 — 9.30 - 11.30 — 3 - 4 and
8 - 9 night parade. vy tired 

11/1/16 Two parads tody - was 
granted leave tody to go into 
Cairo left Tel-el-Kebir by
the 9 pm train- managed to get 
£2 pay - train 1 hour 20 min
late arrd Cairo 1-10
put up at Berstee Hotel first 
time slept in bed for over 12 
months, could not sleep, too 
comfortable

 

12/1/16 Spent whole of dy
driving around Cairo in [[guerie?]]
& shopping. Staying at Berstee 
Hotel, spent night at the
Kursal, vy  good steamer

13/1/16 Spent all dy around 
Cairo, left at 6 -15 pm
for Tel-el-Kebir arriving at 9-30
pm 

14/1/16 Parade this morng & afternoon
rehearsing the march past for the
review tomorrow, by General
Murray, rehearsed by the whole
of the first Division, Salute taken  
by Brig General Smythe,
A night parade tonight = 
4 pads tody.
  
15/1/16 Review of 1st  Division by
Sir A Mrry this afternoon. As no 
Co Platoon was for duty did not take 
part in the review, but saw it 
from the saluting box at the 
Tel-el-Kebir brestworks 

16/1/16 Sundy Attended church 
parade today, rest of the dy 
to ourselves for resting etc

17/1/16 4th  Battalion for Divisional
duty this week, was detailed
for a four days guard, but was 
afterwards put on Divisional fatigue
on the Divisional stores

 

18/1/16 Fatigues all day, a fairly 
easy day.

19/1/16 Fatigues all day 

20/1/16 Mounted Divisional Supply
guard at 9-30. Guard all 
day. 3rd relief 
  
21/1/16 Came off guard at 9.30 
nod duties rest of day 

22/1/16 Company in attack, and morng
parade. half dy only
  
23/1/16 Sunday Attended church 
washg dy tody [[dry?]] 
afternoon
 
24/1/16 Eight hours today in 
desert, advance guard & 
rear guard work 
  
25/1/16 Eight hours in desert, same 
work as yesterdy, got caught in a 
hail storm while marchg home, drenched 
through, everythg vy wet, new issue of  
boots tody 

26/1/16 Eight hours in desert - Batt
in attack; came back to camp
after 3 hours feet vy sore wearing  
new boots.

27/1/16 Half dy tody . Coy drill 
Brigade sports in afternoon, heavy 
rain during sports which were  
postponed

 

28/1/16 Half days drill untill
12-30, sports resumed this 
afternoon, night march at 7-30 
& silent attack on trenches 
of Aribi Pasha 
 
29/1/16 Half hour physical drill 
this morning  6-30 - 7, morng parade
full marchg orders except blankets
marched across desert to the oasis 
about 5 miles each way, back to camp 
at 12-30, rest of day off, went to  
concert in 3rdBn at evening

30/1/16 Sunday Attended church
parade in morning, washing this  
afternoon 
  
31/1/16 Long march across  
desert & attack, outpost 
duty afterwards 8 hours tody 

1/2/16 Long march along canal
& railway into the desert, outpost 
duty durg afternoon, out for 8 hours

2/2/16 half days drill only rest  
of dy to ourselves

3/2/16 Sergents mess, all day
fatigue 

4/2/16 Half dy today, close order  
drill & Coy attack, rest of 
day to ourselves

 

5/2/16 Brigade field day -
long march by the Brigade with an 
attack. 4th Bn flank guard  
the Brigade, back to camp at 12-30 
rest of dy to ourselves

6/2/16 Sunday Leave given to
go into Caro back again at 9-30
pm, went to Serych for my kit bag
was told it was sent to the front
last Mg did not receive it  
evythg in it lost, went to  Pay Office 
but was closed. Caught the 7-15 back
Paid £3.1.7
  
7/2/16 Q M fatigue all day
no parades
  
8/2/16 Half days Bn drills rest of  
day to ourselves. Letter from mother 
  
9/2/16 Half day Bn drill &  
an attack by the Brigade 
rest of the day to ourselves 
  
10/2/16 Batallion drill during morning 
only 
  
11/2/16 Did not go on parade 
 tody was given a holiday, got
nocked up a bit yesterday 

12/2/16 Did not go on parade 
today, muster parade this afternoon 
to reorganise the Battalion half 
the men going to form the 56 Btn
all the men present at the

 

evacuation & the 1st,  2nd & 3rd  
reinforcements also the original Bn kept 
for the 4th Bn, will be heavily 
reinforced to make up to full 
strength.  received parcel from  
mother today 

13/2/16 Sunday Did not attend  
church parade that orderly, the  
Battalion was seperated today 
and moved to the vacant site 
of the 5th Bn we are now 
the new 4th Bn 
  
14/2/16 No parade today, fatigue 
all dy. reinforced only to full 
strength tonight by the 7 reinforces 
of the 19 Bn
  
15/2/16 Did not go on parade 
today helped the [[post]] man 
heard speech of Gen [[Birdwood??]] 
when he opened the [[YMCA]] 
  
16/2/16 Fatigue all day, no 
parades 

17/2/14 Fatigues all day still 
excused from parades 

18/2/16 Applied for transfer to  
the 56 Bn  but was refused
by Capt Judge, was paid [[Ot]] 300
= £3-1-7 today, received new
pay book with total payments
in old book at £38-6-7
Letter from mother

 

19/2/16 Went on parade today  
first time for 9 days, long drill 

20/2/16 Sunday  Did not attend 
church parade today, post office duty 
  
21/2/16 Parade this morning, rifle  
instruction 

22/2/16 No parade today, Q Ms
fatigue all day 

23/2/16 Parade this morning, in 
orders L/Copl today  

24/2/16 Bn parade this morning no 
parade this afternoon  
  
25/2/16 Parade & drills this morning 
full marchg order & had a pack 
 inspection this afternoon, was late  
for staff parade this morning so  
had to parade with the guard  
after this afternoon's parade.
  
26/2/16 Long parade this morning 
for 6 hours, no parade this 
afternoon 

27/2/16 Sunday Attended church 
parade 9 o/c, rest of the day for  
washing . Expect to go to the Suez Canal  
on Wednesday  

28/2/16  All day at the rifle range  
rifles changed for HV & to use mark 
VII ammunition , rifle instructing at range

 

29/2/16 All dy at rifle range 
rifle instructing tody, struck camp 
in evening & got ready to move 
tomorrow  

1/3/16 Entrained at Tel-el-Kebir 
at 9.30 for Serapeum on the 
Suez Canal, arrived there at 
12 o/c, loaded transports & marched 
to the Canal pontoon & crossed 
the Canal, & arrived at the 
camp about 1 mile the other side 
of at 4 o/c, found camp pitched

2/3/16 Parade this morng with  
full packs, got caught in a  
dust storm while marching in the  
desert, very dusty, the whole  
camp covered with fine sand [[?]] 

3/3/16. No parade owing to the dust 
storm still raging, very dusty & windy  
tody [[swimg??]] parade at  2 o/c
had  a good swim in the Suez 
Canal 

4/3/16 Parade tody full morng 
with packs, musketry instruction, made  
full corporal in orders today, two 
flyers arrd by mail no letter.  

5/3/16 Sunday  Attended church 
parade at 9 o/c Vy windy during 
afternoon, plenty of sand flying about  
made Copl of the Scouts with  
14 men & 1 l/cpl

 

6/3/16 Parade tody with full 
pack at rifle range. told off 
for instructing swiming parade this 
afternoon at 2o/c, had a good swim  
in the Canal, vy hot today 
concert in the lines tonight

 7/3/16 Parade today with full  
pack then outpost practice, then 
to  the range, went swimming in Canal 
in afternoon paid 150 pts 
  
8/3/16 Parade tody with full pack 
then outpost duty after went to 
the rifle range, did not go on the  
swiming parade this afternoon, felt too 
tired after morngs march 
  
9/3/16 Parade today with full  
pack for route march, then fired  
at the range, route march knocked  
me up feel prety sick 

10/3/16 Sick parade  today marked 
light duties by the doctor, lazy 
day tody. letter from mother 

11/3/16 No parade this morning Bn  
sports during the afternoon, very 
windy & dusty. Sports delayed untill 
dust storm over. 4th Bn for 
Divisional duties during next week 
detailed for day orderly corpl for 
the week start duties after 
5 o/c this evening

 

12/3/16 Sunday Stated weeks 
Coy Orderly Corpl, exempt from   
all guards & fatigues for the 
Division during the week  

13/3/16  In camp all day as Coy O C 
  
14/3/16 Camp all day as C O C  
innoculated this afternoon for 
enteric in arm TAB/2 
  
15/3/16 Arm prety stiff tody 
farewell inspection by General  
[[Chauvel??]] of the 1st Division, large  
number of men fell out on the square 
owing to inoculation yesterday  
  
16/3/16 In camp all day, arm 
much better tody 
  
17/3/16 No parade today vy windy &  
dusty, Paid 300pts =  £3.1.7 tody 
12th reinforcements joined up this evening 

18/3/16 Full muster parade this 
morng on the Bn square evrybody 
in camp had to attend, [[afterwards]] kitt 
inspection. Orders out to leave here on Sudy 
 
18/3/16 No parade tody, everything packed  
up for leaving tomorrow. Finished weeks 
Coy orderly Corpl, full muster parade 
& pack inspection, [[only]] if ready for morning 
off

19/3/16 Sunday  Attended church
parade this morning, afterwards vy

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