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. This diary beings with the 16th at Oblinghem where they had inspections for feet, rifles, entrenching equipment, and respirators and includes attacks on the trenches, moving to Givenchy, digging trenches, fighting at the La Bassée Front, heavy bombing, an officers vs. men baseball games, big cloud of white smoke observed during heavy rifle fire, list of men appeared in the London Daily papers who were mentioned in dispatches or received honours, creating a gas proof machine gun dugout, a German high explosive shell causing a French observation balloon to descend, moving to new billets at La Maison Blanche in Neuf-Berquin, and the men helping farmers get in crops.

In Collection:

• Military History Collection

Creator

• Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 16th

Subject

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

Language

• eng

Date created

• June 1, 1915 to June 30, 1915

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 21 pages ; 21 x 34 cm

Geographic Coverage

• France--Lens--Givenchy-en-Gohelle
• France--Dunkirk--Neuf-Berquin
• France--Oblinghem

Coordinates

• 50.39278, 2.77222
• 50.661, 2.672
• 50.54917, 2.59861

Additional physical characteristics

• Diary pages handwritten on template pages made of lightweight vellum or heavier bond paper.

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

• typescripts
• journals (accounts)
• manuscripts (documents)
• personal narratives
• 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/j3wm-c085

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