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service was on: at the conclusion the Chaplain said he was sure that he would never forget that Easter Sunday communion: bed at ¼ to 12 midnight
Monday April 24th Easter Monday
cloudy day: Revellie 9 am: had a bosker sleep: my feet were a bit swollen after having boots on for so long: breakfast: Bert & I had some cafe & biscuit over the road: lecture & Reading of routine orders & warned what offences were punishable by death & what had actually been carried out: dinner: aero's kicking around & guns banging away : had a good lay down while I wrote a few letters: our batteries walloped it into Fritz & & the concussion from the guns round our billett was great: heard that two taubes had been brought down:
Tuesday April 25th Anzac Day
fine glorious day: Revellie 3am: march to trenches & had breakfast: on engineers fatigue laying duckboards along the main sap & it was a very muddy job: up to our knees in mud: finished up at 2 pm & came home to billets: Fritz was giving the billets a rough passage & got the one behind us. CCoy were there & also some ammunition. It looked pretty exploding & sending sparks up. The shells used to send up a lot of dirt: Our artillery walloped it into them a treat: there is a lot of twilight in this country daylight 3 am & light till about 8pm: had some cafe coming home from fatigue & while there an officer from the artillery came in & went off pop on the woman for causing smoke he reckoned it was a signal. the spy system must be