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Friday
I have been round part of the lines today.
Saturday
Went to Batt. H.Q. in the trenches & on to B Coy & A Coy. I had a good view of the German lines through a telescope.
There is an old ruined railway station there in the lines. A train engine & carriages is standing at the station. It is riddled with Bullet & shrapnel but it is standing on the rails as if ready to go out. The Farmhouses are very close to the lines here & the farmers plough their land right up to the Support trenches.
Sunday
Today one service that I arranged for fell through but I had two others, both very near the front line, about 25 men at each, the first in an old cowshed & the second in an old house. The house had been badly knocked about. The Ceiling was hanging in shreds & the walls gaping with shell holes. I