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No cover for man or beast, one sheet of water, The frame work of a hut was here. I lent the men a tarpaulin that I carried for a shop, to put over, so they were right for the night. Sgt Bootle an I brought a portable Armstrong hut along on G S wagon. Fixed it up in the pouring rain, Anyhow we had a dry place to sleep in that night
6.9.1916 Great change in the weather, today is beautiful and fine. Everybody busy building some kind of cover. Shoeing Smiths and Myself built a shop. General Hobb in our lines. Great Artillery activity all night
7.9.1916 Still fine, Nothing doing, just fixing up our wagon line
8.9.1916 Cloudy, The name of this place is Ouderdom. A number of aeroplanes over yesterday. A bombing accident, today, killing one man and wounding twenty, This happened alongside of our lines. The men were terribly knocked