Overview
Sat Aug 15
Worked at pipe drains in CK p[addock]. After dinner rode to Levin to attend first parade of Mtd [Mounted] Squadron of National Reserve (local). 36 of us assembled at Drill Hall + went down to Weraraoa football field where under Lieutenant Denton, we manoeuvred for a couple of hours. Under Percy took Aunt Alice + Trixy back to W’gton [Wellington] after eight weeks stay with us. The war news to-day : – A big battle impending (in Belgium). Russian Cossacks ambushed two regiments of Austrian Calvary between a dense forst + a swamp in Russian Poland + utterly annihilated. Servia + Montenegro have invaded Austria.