Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 111
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Monday 23rd Sept.
At last we are going to leave the line for our long expected Corps rest. Yesterday afternoon the Colonel came to the dug-out in company with some American officers, who were on the look out for billets for their men. That could only mean one thing – relief by Americans, & the immediate result of this visit was the performance of an impromptu jig round the wooden pillars of the dug-out, by everyone who inhabited at the time. Stan Dalton, the clerk, who is on night duty, & therefore was sleeping at the time, was unceremoniously wakened up to hear the good news, & to our performances.
Yet we have far less cause for pleasure than the poor old growsing brilliant & unbeatable infantry. Certainly we work during the whole of the time that the Division is in the line, whether on a quiet or a