I continue to look further into the notebook of Bertil Albert Lindh, and on two pages there are some notes that gives us some information where he where in the terrain, and I recognise the area well.
He wrote in his notebook:
“Came out to the front, 28 August 1915 to the 13th Batt.“
As you have seen in my former post, it is also noted in his documents in the Canadian archives, on the third row, in the date column.
On the next page he wrote:
“23 March. (1916) We left the Messine Front for a few days! Rest in Metteran (Probably Meteren in the area west of Bailleul in France) 28 March Left this place for Dickebush (Probably Dikkebus, Belgium, further up north east from Meteren)
Bertil wrote this in his diary just 21 days before his death, 19th of April, 1916.
The notes are confirmed in the unit diary of the 13th Canadian Battalion below.
There are other notes in the book, but the notes mentioned above are the last ones about his situation on the front. The other ones are about different addresses and names on people, which I will write about later.
In the end of the book there are some notes written as small poems. If I only knew who they were, who wrote this.
“All things.
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all.