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get order to start any moment.
10th - About 3 p.m after hurrying get in 1st line in trenches (practically finished) just before renewed bombardment which does not cease till 7. No shelter at all we all lay down in bottom of trenches with bags on our head. Splinters & stones fly all round, some burried several times. Impossible to eat or smoke besides no desire. Worse day I have ever spent. Immediately bombardment finishes get word build up again our destroyed trench & make little abris [shelter]. Everybody â bout. We learn what happened the day before. The 2nd Bn. who was occupying a salient was surrounded & destroyed or taken prisoner. Ditto for a Bn. of [indecipherable] & result pert du mort homme. But everywhere else where the Boche attacked 6 times conservatively they were repulsed with heavy losses. At midnight we have to abandon work again. The Boches attack with inflammable liquid the 16th Chasseurs & bomb & win two trenches. We are now in a critical position. Fortunately we are able to hold them there.
11 - At 2, I am sent, Beluncourt [Beaulencourt] in flames, to the Colonel to bring back the 154 in our position. As usual the relieve arrives late & dawn when they arrive. Our company just get away before bombardment is renewed too late for me to get away. I am very down & dont think I will ever get away. I doubt if