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When we got to our camp we arrived there at 1 oclock in the morning & had a good feed of stew (a new dish in the army) & Tea & changed my socks & took off my drawers & turned them inside out & put them on again & laid down for a bit of a sleep when at 6.30 the same morning we got into motor cars to go off to the Somme this was the month of March & we travelled all that day until 2 pm when we went into Billets for one night & next morning we marched to a Railway station passing on the way Mont-de-Cats & got on the train for Amiens & from there after riding in cattle Trucks (8 chevioux or 40 Hommes) about 40 men in each Truck all day, we arrived & got into Billets at Gudinette [?] where we only had one nights sleep.
then next day at 12.30 we got the order that we were wanted at once & to pack up straight away & be ready to get into cars at 1.30 pm so we got into the cars & went quickly right through Amiens again to a village called Darnacourt where we got into Billets & as it was raining hard all day we were glad of a bit of shelter.
we each got as many bombs as we could carry & extra ammunition & Tucker & at 8.30 pm the same night started for the front where the Huns had broken through a few days before. there were troops going in all directions, some coming down others going up, all seemed in a muddle to my mind. Anyway we arrived at a village & got in a big barn where we stayed two nights when we got orders to move up we were wandering about half the night