Thursday 4 February 2016

Friday, February 4, 1916

Usual drill. Called to band room for lecture and B. S. from Bat. Sgt. Major. Band up in arms after his departure. The biggest growl yet. Get your belts cleaned boys. Bandageing [sic] in afternoon. 85th Hockey team vs 64th [Battalion]. Won by 85th score 3 - 4. Peck [cannot locate in Hayes' index - not a band member] absent all day and night. Thompson [possibly George C., Oxford, NS, 223419, killed at Passchendaele on October 29, 1917; or William R., Brooklyn, PEI, 222125, killed at Lens on June 18, 1917] went away today. Jas. Fraser here from Truro. Made call on [Miss?] Gillingham in evening. Cold. J. Roy [band member James, 223066, Westville, NS] and R. McDougall [possibly band member Ronald, 223122, Pictou, NS] home.

Pte. Ronald McDougall, 223122

Pte. James Roy, 223121

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