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4 Monday
Things are very quiet during the morning The Canadians are bringing all their dead out of the front line & burying them in a cemetery close to Hqrs. Went up to posy on the right for about ¾ of an hour to relieve our fellows for dinner, Fritz put a terrible lot of whiz-bangs over & very close to our dug out, we were nearly buried once. Relieved by the Canadians about 3 pm. Freddy Ryan George Wirth & myself put in the night by a mistake in Albert, we billeted with the 13th Field.
5 Tuesday
Fritz put a few shells on Albert during the morning doing damage. Killing one, wounded one, & injured 2 horses. About 10 am we came on to Warloy by motor sent out to get us. We found that our Amb had left, we picked them up about 5 mls out of Warloy, we then marched to Rubempre where we billeted for the night. Very dull weather & the roads are very muddy. Went for a walk up round the town in the evening. Paid £ 1-8-8 in the afternoon.
6 Wednesday
The 4th Field Amb. had casualties, only had 1sergeant killed &about; 4 wounded, one man went off sick, the 13th had 2 killed & about 7 wounded, the 12th our section had no casualties at all. Fell in 8.45 am & marched out about 9.15 am. I was detailed off on one of the wheelers. It is pretty heavy work pushing them along. We passed through Val de Maison & Candas, arrived at Longvillette about 3 pm very tired, I suppose we marched about 10 miles. We are billited in an old barn & by jove it is a very lousy place too, but nothing compared to the trenches.