Overview
Wed Aug 26
Cold night + white frost. Worked at sheep-yards – finished putting in posts + stays + started battening. Home for night – rode
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down to foot parade at Drill Shed. A message from the Govt [Government] to the effect that our corps could not be officially recognised unless we became members of a rifle club was discussed. At the theatre of war in South Belgium the English force came into conflict with Germans between Namur and Charleroi + drove the foe back but sustained heavy losses. The Servians won a brilliant victory over the Austrians at the Drina. Italy has massed 800,000 troops on Austrian frontier.