The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-18

loft all our kit behind us when we wont into action and lt has ail been lost. We hope to be here for some time. but might have to leave ot five minutes notice All our reinforce- ments are here. We have about half a battalion left and we are Ike old vets to the now men Joining us. l am now a platoon sergeant Sherman said War B hell" but he never went through ypree.
 May 7- We are not doing very much-have a little drill. We are get ting our platoons into shape again. My platoon sergeantry dates from Ap- Til 29. The second contingent men thing that VIC are an buns and will not speak to our men. They win cer- tainly get spanked if they keep $ up.
 May S-We had platoon drill this afternoon. In the morning VIC took march of about five mics
 May 9-No parade this morning. Con. Anderson made little speech to us this afternoon-this is the men who went through Ypres. He started out by saying: eve win take our hats off while we talk about those who have fallon.N He certainly was very pleased with us.
 May 1O-Platoon drill in the morn ing and little march In the after noon. We have Just got word that the Lusitania was sunk. We arc be- ginning to get in good shape again.
 May Hive are working by plat oons. breaking in the new men. Our total loss at Yprc- vas about 400 to 500 officers and about l&.sOO men.
 May l2-We had Q battalion parade this morning and were inspected by Gen. Turner. Dick Worrall received commission. also Sergt. Maj. Price and another man from No. 8 company.
 May 1s-Rain all day long. No pa- rade. am transferred to No. 8 pla- toon. as Worral went to 6, and they put mo there because we have no of ficer for 1t. ] read in the Montreal Star that ! was killed in action on Hfn 60.
 May Everything is wet around here SO we just had rifle inspection and no drin. We left Bailleuel at 6 D. m. and went through Q march. We did not know where VIC were going stnl going-find out tomorrow
 May 15-After marching damn near all night 1t was discovered that we had taken the wrong road--fifteen miles out of the way. We finally got there at S:sO a. m.. going from 6 last night Damn near deadi We are in brlets. under orders to be ready to move at any time. Our artillery turned hell loose again
 May 16-The English troops. First Army, made an advance and arc stin going. They started yesterday. We are northwest of La Bassee. We are in reserve for the first army We left our blllets early this morning and marched fifteen miles and went into reserve trenches Rain all day. We left the trenches at dark and went to bnlets about three miles away.
 May l7-Went back to the trenches at am. stnl raining. and they have no dugouts and we are all wet to the skin. A lot of German prisoners have been brought down during the last two days. The troops arc stin ad- yancing hcre and our artillery is cer- tainly giving them hell.
 May 1S-We advanced up to the second Inc of trenches. It was a German trench. captured during the last couple of days fighting My feet are very sore. I am breaking in new pair of shoes. No and No 9 companies were to make an advance with some of the English regiments. They got lost some way and the Ger mans spotted them and opened up with artillery and machine guns. Our men had to dig themselves in. Maj Shaw was wounded and is missing Mir. Price was also wounded. The Eng fish regiment waited some time for the Canadians and finally went on without them. The Canadians return ed about daybreak. We were brought in these trenches at daylight - the whole Third brigade. We have had over 1000 losses.
 May Is-we are in the trenches at Richebourg. northwest of La Basse. The Germans opened up on us with their artillery. The French advancing on our left in fine order Maj. Marm- ington was killed in his dugout when he was asleep. He never knew what hit him. He was blown all to pieces
 May 2O-They are just beginning to bring our casualty list out for the bat tie of Ypres .n the English papers,
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