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May 3rd (6)
had little sleep – my bowels are open daily – I feel well, but leg troubles me. Has to be kept in one position. Leg dressed today – Good Doctors here – receive splendid attention –
Good meal at 1 pm Coco[a] only for breakfast, Issue bread & Honey daily.
Wrote letter to Bert – Had a sponge over this morning – I badly needed it Injection morphia 5 pm
May 4th
About an hours sleep last night – air raid about 11 pm guns firing, whistles & alarms sounding, an awful noise for hours. Factories, apparently munitions going all night, one of our Room mates talks something awful in his sleep, so with all this I could not sleep.
My foot X rayed this morning – still 7 pieces of small shrapnel in it. Leg not dressed.
Had issue milk & cocoa besides other daily issues. Wrote Mr Fry. Leg painful. Lts Cummings (16th) & Alston (Eng) left for camp this afternoon. Splendid climate. Had morphia
May 5th
Very little sleep last night – too much noise going on in factories &c. Leg dressed today, has been painful all day. Issue of Rice & Bovril today besides other issues of yesterday. Wrote letter Home. Splendid meals here. Injection of morphia & sleeping tablet.
May 6th (Sunday)
Leg very painful last night, had remove iron rod early this morning – no sleep at all. Very painful all day. Usual special issues of light diet again today. Old Sister returned. Raining. Splendid music can be heard from here, violin & piano. Wrote Fanny & Doris. – Morphia tonight & sleeping mixture