Help with war diary transcription needed

[johntaylor]

50 minutes ago, PRC said:

Looking at what is literally there then would appear to be no ampersands present

 

To me it looks exactly like the squiggle used to represent "and" when he writes "and on foot", or "and motor cycle". The letter after that looks to me to be superscript and underlined, so "c" would be the logical choice.

I still think it's the correct interpretation, but always happy to be proved wrong.

John

[A Lancashire Fusilier by Proxy]

33 minutes ago, A Lancashire Fusilier by Proxy said:

It would be interesting to know if there are any other examples of "et cetera" abbreviated in the WD by the same hand.

P.S. I have scanned a few more pages of the WD and observed that the author of this WD generally writes very precisely. If the characters in question are indeed abbreviations for "et cetera" (twice) it may be that he only allowed himself this vagueness because, most unusually, he was writing descriptively, trying to convey a scene of chaos, and, if so, it is quite possible that there are no more examples of "et cetera" in the WD.