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Sunday 6/5/17
A bitterly cold night & again this morning. Yesterday men getting about with only Pair of shorts on, to day – overcoats.
Pay 7/1 £25.1.0.
been very cold all day & the sun shining.
Inspection by Genrl. tomorrow.
Monday 7/5/17
Another surprise off to Bapaume again by Train then Per Boot to God knows where
a hell of a Battle going on guns going for all they are worth we are into it this time with a Vengeance I wonder if this is to be the end.
Pay 8/1. deferred £25.2.0.
53 & 56th have gone we expect to leave at 9.
was up at 4.30 a.m. On board train 11.30 a.m. left 12.15 through Miroumont. desolation & Tommies Arrived about 4 PM tired & dusty, came through Bapaume & other Villages & Towns but did not get their names. Plenty of them about here & they don't appear in the distance to be smashed but suppose they are.
if the huns make a big counter attack tonight into it we go & as the fighting is awful God knows if you will come out of it alive. The Big guns about 400 yds away are kicking up blazes & the others are like machine guns.
Tuesday 8/5/17
Rained all night, slept in tents, woke up this morning swimming for dear life inside as wet as outside So got up & did what we should have done yesterday, dug a trench (fastening the stable door after the horse got out). Owing to the rain there wasn't much doing but the guns are still banging away.
Pay. 9/1. £25.3.0.
Rained all the morning & of course nothing but mud again. Hot as blazes yesterday, cold to day.
off to the line this evening, guns going it