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lef[t] at 8:15 arrived 2 a.m. nearly a gonner twice once coming through Boulingcourt a shell burst in a ruined house alongside the Road & a Piece of brick came down on my helmet. good old tin hat, the other was here, men just going to get into dug-out when shell landed 3 yds away on the other side of the sunken lane thought we were all gone but I only got small splinter in the side of the knee & my face covered with phosforus,
One man wounded & my mate got a hit in the neck & face a very close shave & am looking at the shell hole while I write this & wondering how we escaped, had a hot time all the way in & the noise was fearful, hundreds of guns firing from our side also fritzs.
Marched almost 8 or 10 miles but in Battle order no Packs. Had to sit up all night no room to lie down three of us in dug-out. shells still passing over us.
Owing to the rain the Roads are awful & the mud like glue. hope we get out alright.
Just before getting here fell down a 15 ft. trench & the old tin hat saved me from smashing my head, "Oh it was a bosker night.
Wednesday 9/5/17
Stand to at 4 a.m. till 5 but nothing doing our fellows went right into front line & we are here for 48 hours.
A beautiful day; sun shining again
not too safe outside the dug-out. Any way we are in the Hindeberg line & the trench I fell down was his front line.
Pay 10/1 pounds 25.4.0.
Nearly had the use for Pay Books finished last night it was a hell of a time & no error.
It was Pike Peterson who was wounded last