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W10 Sun
& Dull. E & I go all around The Old Cathedral. Dinner in Hotel very good.
Go to [indecipherable] & I [indecipherable] which E. likes hot. Go to [indecipherable] met [Howard] Cpl Burke several other NCOs that we know. Have bonnie time [indecipherable] after very good day.
Wrote Dad.
W 11 Mon
Dull & wet after 9 am. We go down the Town but return to march out. Only 20 men on parade & we can't so we all go down Town again together. I go all around the Place & drink. 2 glasses vin blanc
Wrote M.R.L. P.C's to Dad M.R.L & Home. Sleep in [indecipherable]
F 12 Tues.
Leave Boulogne at 12.30pm &am and march to Wiemere [Wimereux] about 5 Kilos. Train at 2.45. We are comfy & warm & it is a lovely day. Pass Etappes [Etaples] Abbeville Rouen [indecipherable]. See Ruins & [indecipherable] etc.
Wrote M.R.L. a long farewell.
13 Wed
We have a feed of apples from Truck van. at Etoulles & base at 10.15.
Meet Roy. Get issued with gun. March out again at 5 pm & spend 1½ hrs in house. [indecipherable] in [indecipherable] No 39.
Place lit up & we have warm welcome from [Ranec?]
14 Th
F Ice. We have a Turn all around the Hospital. We have a riot at night & bottles & other things fly pretty strongly. I sit in mess with all others & write. No leave for anyone.
Wrote M & Mum.
F 15 Fri
Ice. Everyone stands to Guards C.G. & G.G. but come up to take away rioters. No leave again. We are both sick & awfully fed up. Just stand by all day as usual. Joe comes up again.
Wrote Con & Mr Edmonds & Doris (Good Bye)
F 16 Sat
Ice M, D, E&I I go down Town together & return alone.
Meet two Waacs no [indecipherable]. [indecipherable] if Auntie saying how like & too near KIM. M & one other on long blue ribbon is I go for a swim