C
O N F I D E N T I A L
38th
CANADIAN BATTALION
War
Diary from 1st April to 30th April 1917
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The text in the
original for April, 1917, consists of 30 pages of handwritten
notes regarding the details of the day to day operation of the
Battalion in the battlefield. Generally, much of the information
included in the diary consists of routine life, drills and dispatches
of little interest other that providing a glimpse into the boring
drudgery of life in the trenches interspersed with actual "WAR".
However, I have chosen the month of April, 1917 which is the
month of the Battalion's participation in the attack of the German
position at Vimy Ridge.
The war diary
entries for this month also included 6 appendices, one of which
unfortunately was deleted at the time since it was an "unofficial"
description of the battle of "Vimy Ridge" which probably
did not co-incide with the "official" sanitized military
version. I will include most of the existing entries. Appendix
2 is the official report on operations of the 38th Canadian Infantry
Battalion from April 9th to April 13, 1917. Appendix 3
is in poor condition with some parts almost impossible to read
from the photo-copies.
As stated previously,
there are 30 handwritten pages for the month of April, 1917.
It will take me a little time to type this information and decipher
the writing. Check back from time to time as I will update as
the work progresses. It would appear that the Battalion's complete
war diary entries, which begin in 1916 and end in 1919 consists
of approximately 1000 pages of which only 30 plus the appendices
will be presented here.
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The
War Diary for April, 1917 |
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Appendix
2 - Operations at Vimy Ridge |
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Appendix
3 - Attack with 1st and 3rd Army |
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Appendix
4 - Battle Reports by Captain MacDowell |
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Appendix
5 - Phone Taps by Captain O'Sullivan |
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