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coming back & finished up in A Coy's entrance: during the afternoon some bombarding was done by both sides: bitterly cold night: Mick nearly got shot:
Wednesday:april 12th
bitterly cold: raining all day: machine gun played on our parapets now & again: seen a German bailing water out but did not get a shot in: another yellow flag is up on their wire entanglements: two that our patrol brought in had "dammedEnglish" wrote on it: our dug out is not too bad but hard to crawl in & out of: we send up rockets occasionally during the night: rats are everywhere & as big as young rabbits: issued with steel helmets & long boots but I can't get warm enough to sleep at all: after tea they opened up fire with a machine gun opposite our bay & played on the parapets nicely: tucker good but scarce:
Thursday april 13th : bitterly cold day: rained on & off all day: tucker good: we guarded the sap leading out all day: after dinner they gave us a good dose of shrapnel & high explosive & theykicked up a row some: one bit of casing came down at my dug out entrance: our guns more than repaid them & got in some good shots: the parson got in Mick;s dugout & was rather nervous: Capt Manafield thought the kitchen was a dug out & hopped in & spilt our tea dixie: there was plenty of machine & rifle fire after tea:
Friday april 14th snowed, [indecipherable] & rained all day: bitterly cold: officers went out on patrol early: I thought Lt Lowther was somebody coming up the breastwork & halted him: Lt Fay informed us that two spies were kicking round & to keep our eyes peeled for them: usual shells kicking about in the afternoon: the graves here are just behind our firing line & they have little wooden crosses: their machine guns played our parapets nicely again & splash dirt over occasionally: snipers are also pretty accurate: