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fatigue (engineers): a few whizz-bangs came a bit close while working: knocked off ¼ to 12 & "imshied". Alf had a letter for me from J.B.J. & it was a real sensible & breezy letter & very acceptable as I can't get them from Aust at all: packed up my kit & then wrote a reply: moved off about 8.30 pm & took over centre Coy position: this is not a bad traverse being just rebuilt: a "coal box" got in a few days ago & splathered it: necessitating the rebuilding: out of the six men in four were killed & two woundered. there are plenty of gore stains about even now: we are pretty short handed & reinf will be acceptable I had a good look at a "Lewis" & they are quite simple to work: Fritz was pretty liberal with his flares: we did not send up one on our Coy's front:
Sunday June 4th
in the firing line: cold cloudy day: nothing much doing till dinner time: a very heavy bombardment over St Eloi way in early morning the sky was lit up like continual lightning flashes by the guns: heard that we had a licking on the North Sea & hope it is a latrine: in afternoon Fritz bogged into our line on left & right & our guns bogged into him, I think we got the "verdict": We had to go out listening at 9.15 pm & came in 12.30 am. It was not too bad only cold: plenty of nettles out in No mans land & they were not too pleasant: a party was fixing up our wire: Gee! but there is some wire there: we could hear Fritz working in front & on our right: but did not see anything: a violent bombardment started down La Bassie way & there were certainly some guns like continual thunder & the flashes were like continual lightning: Fritz got a bit nervy then & started sending