29/11/16 Fairly good night on account of the good heating of the office. Finished work at 8.30 am feeling much less fatigued than upon the last occasion. Pay parade at 10.30 am at which I received 30 francs. Cold day which turned in the evening to a sharp frost. I should mention that leave commenced last week and that nineteen per week is our allotment for blighty. There are about 467 however attached to this headquarters so that personally I am afraid my turn will come in the far distance. In connection with the attempted electric lighting arrangements by means of the stream by the mill, which flows through the ground of the chateau. I might mention that up to the present it has proved a failure, the effort has not been dropped and a party of German engineers with the assistance of a few English are still doggedly persevering with the object, which they have in view. On duty 5 pm until 9 pm. ----------------------------------------------------------- Other War news on this day in 1916: Eastern Front Germans capture Campulung and Piteshti (north-west of Bucharest). Mackensen at Calugarino (17 miles south of Bucharest). Russians Carpathian offensive continues. Southern Front Austrians massing troops on Carso front. Fight east of Monastir continues in fog. Naval and Overseas Operations Admiral Sir John Jellicoe announced First Sea Lord, and Admiral Sir David Beatty Commander-in-Chief of Grand Fleet. British seaplanes bomb Gereviz (Bulgaria). Political, etc. Board of Trade takes over South Wales coalfield from 1 December 1916. Protest of U.S.A. against deportation of Belgians. ----------------------------------------------------------- Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB OM GCVO SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935): Was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Egyptian war and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during World War I. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain. At the time the British public were disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a victory on the scale of the Battle of Trafalgar. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoy, but was removed at the end of 1917. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s. ----------------------------------------------------------- Pictures: Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe C1916 and Bust of Jellicoe in Trafalgar Square London
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