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Date: February 1917
Diary

Signed W.H. Dobbie, Captain.

Feb. 1 Inspection by G.O.C. Canadian Corps. Col. Cole visited battery.
" 2 No firing.
" 3 Fired 40 rounds on S.O.S.
" 4 Fired 170 rounds on hostile battery , very successful.
" 5 No firing.
" 6 Fired 50 round son S.O.S.
" 7 Fired 15 rounds on trench in M 26.
" 8 Fired 40 rounds on hostile battery and 20 rounds on S.O.S.
" 9 Fired 75 rounds on counter battery work.
" 10 Aeroplane shoot on hostile battery, 200 rounds.
" 11 240 rounds fired on hostile battery, aeroplane observation.
" 12 Lieut. Burn, D.S. returned from a course at Air.
" 13 Fired 65 rounds on trenches.
" 14 200 rounds fired on two hostile batteries. Aeroplane observation.
" 15 Aeroplane shoot on hostile battery 50 rounds, results very good.
" 16 Fired 40 rounds on S.O.S.
" 17 Ordered to be ready to move.
" 18 Right section moved to Mount St. Eloy.
" 19 One section of 136 Siege Battery arrived to take over guns. 100 rounds
fired on hostile battery with aeroplane observation.
" 20 Reinforcements arrived, 20 rounds fired on S.O.S.
" 21 Fired 100 rounds on Souther Crater.
" 22 Fired 90 rounds on S.O.S.
" 23 Lieut. Thomson, J.R. left battery for England.
" 24 Fired 50 rounds on hostile battery 136 S.B. took over one section.
" 25 fired 40 rounds on S.O.S.
" 26 Turned over battery to 136 S.B. and moved personnel to Mount St. Eloy.
" 27 Battery on rest at Mount St. Eloy.
" 28 Three Officers went to O.P. at Ecurie to study targets for new positions.