Geoffrey Bell Hughes diary, 1 January 1916-31 December 1916 - Page 173
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laying in a blanket in next tent. Search lights scanning sky. Higgins. Fine towards dinner
Many aeroplanes & observer balloons
31 October 1916 Tues
Arose at 6.15 am terribly cold & raining as usual. Socks all sopping wet boots the same. Great change in this place since two months ago. Big guns & shells then all round. Now tents, train, dugouts. The line is now ten to twelve miles away. 241 cases 170 night. All regiments [indecipherable] Devons Argyle & Sutherlands Monmouth Fusiliers. The Hon Ryder Hussars. Aeroplanes dropped bombs to-night. One victim [text continued at top of page]
[Note in margin]
Met [indecipherable]
1 November 1916 Wed
On my way down to work I had pass the cookhouse where Sid Coleman bailed me with a pint of rum & tea. Bennos invitation to spend a few hours with him. Somebody knocked the jar of rum off the table & spilt the lot. Some 500 patients passed through. Curtis blankets & pyjamas. Bennos invitation to spend a convivial evening in bed full when I called.