Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 80
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[Page 80]
Sunday 15 Aug. 1918 [Transcriber's note: actually 15 September 1918]
We are now established as A.D.S. at the Sugar Refinery, Tincourt, just behind Hamel. The remainder of B Tent Sub. – Burnett, Tom Smith, Kak Smith & I, walked back just before dark, & found a marquee in use as A.D.S. on the border of the village next to the Sugar Refinery. Most of the bearers had made bivouacs on the opposite side of the hill, & some had established themselves in cellars. Of the latter Snowy Eva came up & offered me a pozzy in a cellar occupied by him & a few others. We finished cleaning up & lit a fire to smoke to clear the cellar of foul air, before the Gothas came over.
These were over fairly soon early, but they were met by a very stiff barrage of Archies & machine gun bullets. Still we waited for the inevitable ker-rumps & zonks which would follow as usual the humoring of their