2.55pm. Reach London about 8pm 15 January 1916 Attend Buckingham Palace where there are about 500 officers & others waiting to be presented. The King placed the order or medal on a hook which has been previously placed on the left breast & then shakes hands – recipient bows & leaves. Leave for Gosport in the afternoon with Kathleen 16-24 January 1916 Spend leave at Gosport & return to Flanders on 24 25 January 1916 Relieve 8th Brigade 26-28 January 1916 Still warm & not much rain nothing doing on the Kaiser's birthday 27th. The Brigade Machine Gun Company has now been formed – the personnel was taken from the Lincolns, Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers & Royal Scots Fusiliers each of these sections has four guns either Vickers or