November 1915

First diary

November 1, 1915 (Monday)

Rain

Practical mining all this week. - "B" Coy laying mine field + "A" coy laying countermines. - Got shafts started. Old shaft flooded. - Not much done on accounting of rain. - Ride as usual.

Second Diary

Started mining scheme

"Kitty Grey" at Pleasure Gdns.

Second diary

November 2, 1915 (Tuesday)

Second Diary

Wet. - Rode out in aft. - Followed the hounds.

Second diary

November 3, 1915 (Wednesday)

Second Diary

Surveying position in mining scheme.

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November 4, 1915 (Thursday)

Second Diary

Mining. - Rain

Went in town

Second diary

November 5, 1915 (Friday)

Second Diary

Mining

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November 6, 1915 (Saturday)

Second Diary

Hunt. - Meet at Aldury town - 11

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November 7, 1915 (Sunday)

Second Diary

Orderly officer. - Officer from "B" co'y to be detailed for road work.

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November 8, 1915 (Monday)

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Moved out of tent.

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November 9, 1915 (Tuesday)

Second Diary

On road work - Rain.

"Mr. Wu" - at Pleasure Gdns.

Heber Dawson came with draft.

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November 10, 1915 (Wednesday)

Second Diary

App. for leave.

Road work.

No entries recorded: November 11–30, 1915 (20 days)

Robertson had noted “App. for leave” on November 10, and a Regent Palace Hotel bill records two nights in London on the 11th–12th. Both notebooks are otherwise blank until December. His hotel bill from that weekend, in the Gallery →

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