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Rain afternoon, pitch dark at night corveé de rantraillement get lost.
23 - Up most night, rain, as usual artillery comparatively quiet some compensation for the mud & wet.
24 - Rain damp & muddy same monotonous bombardment getting pretty tired of it all.
25th. - More uncomfortable night than usual, new guests & just barely sitting room. Congratulations from Joffre the way we are holding on, everything seems to show that troops that were to relieve us are required elsewhere. We are informed that a new effort is required of us.
26 - Nothing startling, usual bombardment, rain morning, snow at night.
27 - Comparative quiet night & cold, received 3 parcells. [Indecipherable] appear again getting filthy. Three weeks now since last wash. No sign of relief yet.
28 - Very disagreeable bombardment this morning. They are employing a new kind. They don't explode till they get well in the ground. They play hell with the trenches & dugouts & are most weird things. Our adjutant