One of the official War Diaries of the First Infantry Division of the 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force that cover from the time the Regiment went overseas at the start of the First World War to the time it returned to Canada in April 1919. War diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. The diary provides a daily summary of events, actions, activities, etc. The January 1919 diary begins with the Battalion in Lindlar spending New Year's day as a holiday with an address by Colonel Peck, moving to Huy in Belgium by train and then to Antheit for the rest of the month where they started a Battalion school and engaged in training, games, parades, and lectures. The month ends with lists of casualties and decorations awarded and Operation Orders. The February diary has the Battalion in Antheit for the whole month where they played football, trained, a successful review at Liege with massed bands, funeral for Brig-General Tuxford whose grave was put in the town cemetary as a permanent memorial to the men of the Commune killed in the war, and the first and second party of Officers and men left for England to return to Canada. The March diary begins with the Battalion in Antheit where there was the Presentation of the King's Colour by Major-General Sir A.C. Macdonnell, taking the train for Le Havre then to Weymouth and lastly Bramshott in East Hampshire. The April diary begins in Bramshott for the month where they had medical inspections including delousing and were put on leave until they were able to leave back to Canada.

In Collection:

• Military History Collection

Creator

• Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 16th

Subject

• Military history
• Soldiers--Conduct of life
• Soldiers--Billeting
• Trenches
• Intrenchments
• World War (1914-1918)
• Military hygiene
• Canada. Canadian Army
• War casualties
• Weather
• Soldiers--Social conditions
• Military decorations
• Military supplies
• War diaries
• Soldiers--Health and hygiene
• Battle casualties
• Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 16th
• Soldiers
• Drill and minor tactics
• Military camps
• War
• Soldiers--Training of
• Fortification, Field
• Soldiers--Training

Language

• eng

Date created

• January 1, 1919 to April 26, 1919

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 16 pages ; 21 x 34 cm

Geographic Coverage

• Germany--Lindlar
• Belgium--Wanze--Antheit
• England--East Hampshire--Bramshott

Coordinates

• 51.0896, -0.79812
• 50.54927, 5.24022
• 51.01959, 7.37758

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Military History Collection

Provenance

• Transferred to UVic Special Collections and Archives from BC Archives, May 2006.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• journals (accounts)
• personal narratives
• manuscripts (documents)
• typescripts
• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2006-011

Fonds title

• 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC338

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/16th-battalion-canadian-scottish-fonds

Date digitized

• March 2025

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek Opticbook A-300 600 DPI tiffs (gamma 1.20, no color correction) by PD. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/9dfs-b763

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