Fine day. Training parades. Went out in afternoon to see 10^th Bn. Saw CHARMAN again also S. TIMMS (Capt). Great surprise. Bought lace for Lize. Drums placed in camp.

No work rain & wind all day. Troops sleep. No 15 PLATOON return about 4.30 pm. Lost & went to old ‘E’Camp. Quiet night. Bad sleep.

Fine morning. Quiet. Both sides bombarded with T.M. [trench mortars] & Stokes about 3.30 pm. Arty active. Heavy rains & thunder. Trenches soon swamped. Relieved by 2^nd R. Dub Fus [Royal Dublin Fusiliers]. Relief complete about 2.0 am. Gas Alarm 10.50 pm., some shelling, gas on right sector. Heavy storms. Troops reach camp between 5.0 am & 12.0. Everybody tired & very wet.

Fine morning. Showers later. Enemy arty very quiet. Mining Offr. reports Germans working on gallery in front of “A” Coy, so decide to blow him. Miners commence work for blow at 9.0 pm. Working very hard , blow to take place at 2.0 am. Orders given for all ranks to stand to. Mine exploded 2.4 am 28/29 inst. Big shock & much larger crater than expected. Fine sight large cloud smoke, enemy very nervous plenty of Very lights, rifle & Mgunfire. No shelling. Part of our parapet in 39 Trench blown in, 4 Lewis Gunners buried, no wounds shock only. All quiet by 3.30 am. Turned in 3.0 am.

Showery morning. Fine later. Rather heavy bombardment by the enemy about 4.30 pm. Minnies , Oil Tins & all other sorts, all shook up but no casualties. Quiet night. Aircraft inactive. Italy declares war on Germany. Roumania declares war on Austria.

Showery morning. Fine later. Enemy Arty active. Trench mortars, Minnies etc. Sg. SLATER Pte LINES wounded. Retaliation poor. Anzac Arty. Come in line. About 4.30pm big shock fell, no outward explosion. Huns blew camouflet. Sg. SLATER died of wounds.

Nice morning. Aircraft active. Allies aeroplane brought down in enemy lines AA Guns. Fritz active about 1.0 pm. Whizz Bangs & Heavies. Pte MATTHEWS killed. Rain at night. Garage On all day. Anzac miners come into the line.

Nice day. Spend day in cleaning up & making place as sanitary as possible. Awful job. Enemy shelled in afternoon with 5.9 no damage. Went to take over front line about 7.0 pm. Nearly caught with Whizz Bangs at corner if Jackson St. & Cutting. Near thing. Pte WILSON killed. Pte POULTON wounded. Take over line, very bad & dirty. Relief complete about 1.0 am. Take over from 60^th Can. Infy. S.M. FULLER 60^th Can. Infy.

Nice day. C.M. Sgt Kinchin. Stand by for trenches. Parade 3.0 pm. for trenches. March to Railway Dugouts very tiring. ? en route. Take over from 58^th Can. Infy [Canadian Infantry] Very dirty. Bttn arrive about 11 pm. Relief complete about 1.0am. CSM ALLBRIGHT & RSM 58^th. Leamingtonian

Nice day. Training parade 10-12 noon. Very quiet.