The First World War
War Diary of The Royal Canadian Regiment
Transcription by Captain Michael O'Leary, The RCR.
FEBRUARY 1916
1.2.16 - Monte de Cats
Strength on 1.2.16:- 35 Officers. Other ranks 969.
Captain (Rev.) G.W. Bullock Struck off 19th inst. And Hon. Capt. D.F. Pidgeon taken on this date.
2.2.16 - Monte de Cats
NIL.
3.2.16 - Monte de Cats
NIL.
4.2.16 - Monte de Cats
NIL.
5.2.16 - Monte de Cats
Operation Order No. 1 of this date is attached marked 1 (with attached distribution in Trenches.)
6.2.16 - Monte de Cats
R.C.R. moved from Billets 8.00 a.m. to Brigade Reserve, KEMMEL SHELTERS, (N.20.c.2.4.), arrived 11.00 a.m. in 6th Brigade Area and came under command of G.O.C., 6th. Brigade.
7.2.16 - Kemmel
R.C.R. moved at 4.00 p.m. for Trenches to relieve 27th. Battalion. Relief completed 6.06 p.m. P.P.C.L.I. on our left and 2nd Battalion on our right.
No. 477714 Pte PENNEY H.S. M.G. sec. Killed in rear of Trench F.5. (CVWM)
Situation quiet. Wind South West. Fine.
8.2.16 - Trenches
No. 477714 Pte PENNEY H.S. buried at 2.20 p.m. at
N.27.c.4.8½. Sheet 28.
No. 477804
Sgt. RUDEE, F.J. "D" Coy. slightly wounded and at duty.
Situation quiet. Wind South West. Weather, some rain in afternoon.
9.2.16 - Trenches
No. 477688
Pte OLIVER, F. "D" Coy. wounded accidentally.
No.
The RCR in the Great War
War Diary
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Honours and Awards
Roll of Honour
Prisoners of War
Cemetery List
Cemetery Map
Courts Martial
Officers
RSMs of The RCR (1914-1919)
NCOs and Soldiers
An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
On to Bermuda (1914-15)
England and France 1915-1916 (Hayes; 1931)
Overseas with The Royals (1915)
Regimental History Pamphlet (1917)
Amiens (1918)
Cambrai (1918)
Monchy-le-Preux (1918)
Under-aged Soldiers in The RCR
Not All Were Volunteers; The RCR and the Military Service Act
Sentenced to Death by Court Martial
The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
A Regimental Goat
Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
"March the Guilty Bastard In"
Surrendered as Stowaway
Re-Visiting the Great War Roll of Honour for The RCR
Canadian Corps Trench Standing Orders (1916)
