Item 04: Rudolph Cox diary, 28 September-31 December 1917 - Page 28

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23.12. Usual 5. M.G & shells active. 1 bay of revetting. 24.12 Hard hoar frost.

24.12. Usual. Thawed slightly. Fell foul of colonel & 4 other officers & put to work clearing wire. Home 11.

25.12. My day in Thawed & snowed again in evening. Wrote letters all evening

26.12. Usual. Heavy frost. Parapets and some trench Rumours of enemy raid. Home at 10 30

27.12. Dug and completed 3 positions Usual.

28.12. Dug 2 dugouts usual.

29.12. No party & 10 men in post Home 10.
30.12. New job vague instructions very dark and couldn't trace

31.12. Found job alright and didn't do much work with 20 Inf. Home at 9.30 as raid expected.

1.12. No party. Change over.

2.12. Slight thaw and stayed home Mail in.