March out for 2 hours after breakfast, very hot again. A lot fall out I get wet through with sweat. It is a job to keep the reservists going march discipline so strict. After dinner parade in order for field work. I get inoculated against enteric fever. I feel queer but have to keep about as I am B. I hear from my Bev. At Dover with 3rd Butt.
Afterwards go to Colchester with them. I have a very bad night it is so hard on the bricks you feel sore when you get up. Then washing shirt and socks in the river and lay them out on the tennis court to dry. Write to May and mother while they dry also write to John and Jack to L.
After tea walk down the village with Welsh watch a man fishing. Afterwards buy some from him we try to get some of the villagers to cook them but they let their fires out early so we get them cooked by the cook in camp and eat them, they go down alright.
Manage to write home to May. I just get laid down at 10 p-m. When I am ordered to take charge of advance party to Wembley Middlesex. I get up and go over to the cookhouse where the parade is. It is very cold cannot sleep stand about all night near the fire about 2.
The 18th we get some tea ham and bread and move off through the Park quite pleased to get on the move and get warm. Dawn is breaking as we enter Norwich 3 and a half miles from the Park meet several fellows returning after remaining absent. Only just in time to catch train.
