Rain & wind. not a nice day. we stand too for inspection until noon. For dinner we have the sergts as waiters & get a fair meal. fried steak, boiled onions, bread (no butter) nuts, candies, orange, little parcel & card from E. D.M. make a souvenir card, got the humps want to be home. Sing-song in the evening with Magwood in the chair. Chuck & quite a few drunk. Tuesday Wed & Thurs Dec 26. 27. & 28 General camp routine Friday Dec 29. Fatigue all day. put on as No 4 ward orderly for the night, about 30 patients, some pretty bad cases. Sat Dec 30. Slept all day, wake up feeling a little sick in the tummy. go on duty at 7. PM. feel awfully sick as the night wears on. just all in by 7. AM. Sunday Dec 31. Go straight to bed, no grub all day. I can’t go on duty at night & Rourke goes on as my sub. Three letters from Belle at 7. PM. The boys have a concert in the hut I am laying in
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
The war in late 1916
As 1916 ends, the war has reached a stalemate. The Somme and Verdun have cost over two million casualties combined without decisive result. Germany is planning unrestricted submarine warfare. The Allies are planning new offensives for 1917. In the Vimy sector, the Canadian Corps is taking over trenches previously held by French units. The positions are poorly maintained: shallow trenches, few dugouts, unburied dead. The Canadians will spend the winter improving the defences and preparing for the spring offensive.
