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"Fritz" sending some shells around the hillside tonight but we must be at least 6 miles from the line.
Received parcel from home but no letters.
Fri. Oct. 27th: -
Raining again & the wind is bitterly cold.
Don't know what they intend doing with us here.
"Fritz" putting a few shells over on the camp again without much damage done.
Sun. 29th. Oct: -
Left our rain sodden "humpies" on the hillside near Mametz wood & marched in rain & mud to old tumbling down dugouts on the roadside behind Deville Wood & at the side of the remains of Longueval.
The destroyed Sugar refinery is about 800 yds. to our rear & is just one tangled heap of ruined boilers & machinery.
Scrap-iron by the ton.
Watelow Farm once existed somewhere in this vicinity.
To the right lies Ginchy.
Artillery is just packed in a row along the road & keeping up an incessant bombardment on Bapaume which is just to be identified by a clump of trees on the ridge on the distant front.
We are in reserves here & the mud is the limit.
Our "stunt" is postponed &