To dinner at H.Q. with Stubbings and Nixon.
Month: Mar 2016
Sunday, Mch. 5th, 1916
Church parade. Stayed in camp on duty all day.
Saturday, March 4th, 1916
20 men with N.C.O. left camp for R.N.A.S. Camp at E. Nucdus. Mail arrived. Had letter from H.B. In the evening had a ride with Nixon.
Friday, March 3rd, 1916
Walked over to cemetery Portzanos [Portianos] re boundary wall. In the evening went to dinner at H.Q. with Major Harrison, Capt. Paris and Lieut. Taylor.
Thursday, March 2nd, 1916
Today I met Major Harrison and the Adjutant at South Pier and proceeded in the tug to Linini Point to inspect landing stage which we found in good condition -Also an old boat which had bottom stove in, but found it beyond repair. On our return we called at Somali to make enquiries re death of Sapper Harris.
Rough stormy night, very high wind, heavy rain and vivid lightning.
Wednesday, March 1st, 1916
Today O.O. Thirty men from the new draft left camp for Imbros under Capt. Marshall. At noon Lieut. Gould in the Spinet left for Stavros with a quantity of material and plant for pier contstruction. In the afternoon I took a burial party to hospital and thence to the cemetery by the side of the Greek Church at Portzanos [Portianos] to bury Sapper Harris. This man was taken ill on the Olympic and on arrival here to the hospital ship Somali in the harbour where he died. It was a very solemn ceremony in these Eastern surroundings.
Today I was posted in orders as acting O.C. of No. 1 Field Co.
Lieutenant James Brierley 