Battalion rest & cleans up. Fine day.

Quiet night & day. Germans fired 3 heavy mortars into “A” Coys trench at 4 am. Our 6” Howitzers retaliated on points where mortar was suspected. Continue reading →

Quiet night & day. Germans fired 3 heavy mortars at “A” Coy before “Stand Too [sic]” Strafe by R.I.F. [Royal Irish Fusiliers] at 8 pm.. Work on Trenches continued. Fine hot day.

Quiet night & day. Germans fired 2 mortars into “C” Coy at 4.15 am. Work carried on in BLENEAU Street and MONK TRENCH. Fine.

Quiet night. Sniping active on both sides during the day. Enemy artillery more active. MAILLY-MAILLET shelled between 5 & 6 pm. Fine. 1 man killed 5 wounded.

More rain during the night. German Machine Guns active. 2 men wounded in “C” Coy’s trench from Shell fire between 8 & 10 pm. Enemy Snipers active during the day. A Coy claimed one German hit.

Quiet night and day. One enemy Aerial torpedo fell near C Coy without damage.

A little finer but trenches very wet. Our Snipers successfully kept down enemy’s snipers. “A” Coy reported having shot two Germans. Patrols report very little German work.

A little shelling with Field Guns & a few trench Mortars on our left Coy, otherwise quiet day. Patrols report little doing in German trenches. Germans called out “We are Saxons, you are Anglo-Saxons. What are we fighting for?” Rain at night. Trenches in bad condition.

Relieved 1^st Kings Own Regt in trenches at 9 pm. Relief complete 11pm. We now occupy another Coy’s frontage on our right Order of Coys. A.D.C. right to left with B Coy in Reserve. Took over WARWICK CASTLE as our Hd Quarters, Quiet night.

Fine morning, heavy rain in afternoon. Working party 250 men for 3^rd Line.