Item 01: William Burrell diary, 20 December 1915-12 November 1916 - Page 53
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been riddled with bullets : someone spilled our jam during the night & poor Dick Taylor rolled in it & was rather "jammy" in the morning
Wednesday Feb 2nd
clear day : windy : cold in morning & night Revellie 6 am : breakfast & marched to the range : finished our musketry & returned about 12.30 pm : had dinner & handed our rifles back . spent rest of afternoon making our borders along the tents : on completion the lines look splendid : McKinley taken away with mumps which are rather prevalent in our Coy : Isaacs has shaved his mow off & looks queer : my boots has been giving me blazes & a big corn has worked up on my toe: I have got permission to wear shoes for a day to let a bootmaker stretch them for me.
Thursday Feb 3rd
clear day cold night & morning. Revellie 6 am I had a day on fatigue to allow my boots to be stretched. I was put on cleaning up our lines & "roo shooked" about 10 am & wrote letters : done nothing in afternoon. Alf & McCrop on musketry for three days
Friday Feb 4th
clear dusty day : cold morning & night : Revellie 6 am : two hours physical : breakfast : company drill till dinner : dinner : advancing against