Item 01: Charles Monaghan diary, 1916 - Page 312

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[Page 312]

1916 October 26
Thursday

Up 7.30.a.m. Breakfast & scrap. 9.30 parade, rain. clean up camp. – picking up rubbish out of mud. 11.30 parade – box respirators. dinner. junk meat & potato in hand. relish it too. 2 p.m. parade. – salvage thro' Mametz wood. – what desolation & ruin.! ! Tea – biscuits & dripping. Camp fire, humping of huge logs in slippery mud. fun & merriment (?) To our funk holes at 7 p.m. fine evening & consequent aerial activity. Fritz send over a few shells.

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