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drizzling rain fell all the time I was on guard, 6 to 8. But as I stayed in the shed all the time I got practically none of it. It is a winter day and in marked contrast to the beautiful day of yesterday.
I have not seen any papers yesterday or this morning, & have heard no war news at all. Yesterday the Germans shell from a long way off one of the 4 observation balloons stationed around here but failed to hit it. They succeeded in causing it to be drawn down. As I have nothing to do when I came off guard, I removed my bed from the guard hut to the reinforcements huts, remade it and turned in for a rest if not a sleep. A new guard was appointed but before they had taken over a detachment of Tommies from England, (conscripts) came into camp and took over all the guard duties of this camp.
This afternoon I had a hot bath at the Divisional baths attached to this camp – I got my towel changed. I heard today that the British had another big advance after hard fighting in the region of St. Quentin also that we lost 28 planes.
[The Royal Flying Corps suffered its heaviest losses of the war in April 1917]