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 diary begins with the Battalion in the Ronville Caves under Arras, work being carried out on the Ficheau-Telegraph Hill Switch, moving to eh front line Telegraph Hill Sector, billetting in the Carrière Wellington museum in Arras, Liet. D. Clelleand and a runner going missing and searching for them, moving to Roclincourt Corps Reserve, gas helmet inspecation, parading in kilts for the first time in 1918, work on St. Catherine's Switch, reconnaissance for a raids, and undertaking successful raids on the enemy. The diary includes a narrative of the raids on night of April 27/28, 1918 and a tally of the casualties from those three raids. The diary ends with Operation Orders and copies of the narrative about the raids.

In Collection:

• Military History Collection

Creator

• Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 16th

Subject

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

Language

• eng

Date created

• April 1, 1918 to April 30, 1918

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 30 pages ; 21 x 34 cm

Geographic Coverage

• France--Arras
• France--Roclincourt
• Western Front (World War (1914-1918))

Coordinates

• 50.32556, 2.78694
• 50.2893, 2.7809

Additional physical characteristics

• The 1918 diaries are 12 months in one bundle with a blue cover and with sub-bundles inside. Most diary pages are handwritten on template pages made of lightweight vellum paper or heavier bond (rag?) paper; some are typewritten; some leaves are not on template pages, size varies.

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

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

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/rbb0-sh30

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