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portion of me is wet & muddy, tried hard to keep warm – not dry in a wet dug out, or rather an apology for a dug out – Went & relieved the 8th at Flers post. No sleep – Our ratioon is getting better – plenty of bully & biscuits & shell hole water – what we miss is hot tea & we are not even issued with tea & sugar. Fairly busy night & day.
31/10/16 Tuesday
Cold but fine from daylight. It is heartrending to see the boys coming from the firing line – wet through & mud to the neck, fagged out & completely done in. Our overcoats are an awful failure for this climate, they are heavy enough dry but when wet & muddy - it is only a good man can get along with them – Have had about 50 infantry men around our post all the morning – cold & shivering & begging for tea & water – of these we can't get enough for ourselves – Have heard big strong men say I could just sit down & cry with disgust – Words fail me to even try to describe things as they are here – one has to go thro it – in the crowds that go by – lads of 19 yrs look as tho twice the age, older man still more haggard, we had a heavy shower about 3 pm fine rest of day. Fritz shelling our Post Flers heavily, made my little funk hole a water hole into rock. Here we are near a battery & while the