Item 05: Thomas Goodwin war diary, 19 March-4 December 1918 - Page 124
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3-9-1918
A quantity of comforts arrived. Weather fine nothing doing.
4-9-1918
Major reteaming horses. 10,000 prisoners captured yesterday. Gambria occupied today. Weather still fine.
5-9-1918
Battery manoeuvre this morning. Hot day. Stuck up for shoes. Kicked by a horse, just above knee, very sore. Capt. [indecipherable], promoted to Major, in charge of 3rd Bty. Capt. Duffy, also Major, in charge of 4th Bty. Great dissatisfaction in 3rd Bty., counted out their late Major (Christie). He had the Bty. going day and night, no half holidays. A bit of a thunderstorm, very light rain. Two men in 1st Bty. killed, messing about with a trench mortar bomb, Grs. Hughes and McDonald, blown to pieces. 2nd Brigade sports on this evening.
6-9-1918
Erecting a marble head stone, at Bdr. Rawlinson's grave. Engraved by Corp. Souter, Trench Mortar