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some old dutch wind mills: bombardments stopped during the day but started again towards night: cold dull day: bed at 6pm & wrote in bed: Fiddler told us about the Johnnie he killed:
Thursday April 6th
Revellie 6.30am: dull cold day: double up: breakfast: bayonet practice & instructional lecture on bombs & mortars: practice bomb throwing with mud: told that bombs were used up to 60 lb weight & they made a crater 12 ft deep & 16 ft across: mill's grenade the most used: lecture on how to take a trench partly captured: shown by a party of eight men (grenadierparty) & very interesting: dinner: fell in but dismissed to "make & mend": Tom & I went down & had some cafe: girl there had wine instead: heard about a girl who three German officers disgraced: the mother wanted to go up & let them gratify their lusts on her, but they made the girl go up: what more do we want to justify us coming to the war? picture our own sisters in the same position: tea: Tom Jug & myself went to Thiennes & had a eat up chocolates: dates: biscuits chip potatoes & coffee with bread & butter & it was tra-bong: The boys were all merry & Ern & Dev were trying acrobatics & "high" diving: bed: bombardment still going strong: issued with extra helmet & goggles.
Friday April 7th
Revellie 6am: dull cold day raining up to 7am: fell in 7.30 am & set off: spelled for dinner 1 to 2pm: passed through Hazelbrouk a big place: part of the roads were cobbled & played havoc with our feet: finished up 4.30 pm & done about 16 ½ miles: travelling kitchen supplied soup for tea: billeted at a fine up to date farm house: we were up in a loft & had