The previous draft mainly Liverpool pals who were wounded

20th November [1916] Monday

Ordinary parades – generally smartening up the men. Large draft turned up tonight from England – 50 for the Coy, which with the 30 I got a few days ago makes me the strongest Coy . in the battalion. The previous draft mainly Liverpool pals who were wounded in July in the Somme. Today’s very mixed – some hopeless conscripts and a small percentage of 1st Kings – a sergeant and Corporal who were with the 1st Kings as late as the taking of Flers and saw the tanks! Poor fellows they did not get long in England – pushed off here 10 days after being discharged from hospital.