Item 04: Harry Pidcock Mason war diary, August - October 1916 - Page 15

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1916

Fri Sep 1st
To day we are releived by the Canadian A.M.C. and are preparing to take our departure. We handed in all blankets & are paraded in marching order and are awaiting orders to move off.

I have a gathering in my ear through having a cold, weather is again fine we slept under the trees at back of chateau, we are warned to move off in the morning.

Saturday Sep 2nd
Did not move off to day filling in the time cleaning up the camp & billets.

Sun Sep 3rd
Paraded at 6 a.m.

After breakfast marched off at 10 beginning with a number of haults through the congestion of traffic on the road.

We passed through Ponchvillers also Toutencourt and arrived in a hamlet called Orville which proved to be our destination where we went into an orchard & pitched camp putting up bell tents. The rain comming down heavy the