Dull morning, thaw sets in, also rain & wind makes the ground worse than before, quite a bad day still very cold. First 2 letters from L. Fritz fores a long range gun which shells are behind the camp.

Fine morning, sharp frost, able to work on camp. Great air activity, plenty of sausages up & lots of aeroplanes. Dull at night.

Fine morning. Very sharp frost. Ground nice & hard, nothing of importance, parties work on camp trying to improve it.

Fine but dull, very muddy camp & insanitary. Bttn billeted in French huts, very large & cold. We do nothing all day it’s too muddy to drill. Get Div Xmas cards issued, not bad at all. Very cold at night & not much sleep.

Arrive MERICOURT 4.30 am, & get out of train which we should not have done. Get a lorry from there to FRICOURT about 9 .0 am then march to No. 16 Camp & find Bttn about 11.30 am. Have a good wash & clean up then rest all day.

Get woke up at 4.0 am & told to move at once. We get dressed & fall in leaving our blankets etc. in the sheds. March off about 4.45 am  & proceed to Stn [Station] where we entrain, 1^st Class carriage, very dirty train leaves at 6.40 am, slow & tedious journey arrive MONTESLIER-BUCHY at 2.30 pm. Get hot tea & write diary, spend night in train.

Boat leaves 8.0 pm & we have a good voyage arriving at HAVRE 3.0 am. Very stuffy in the cabin, but we don’t mind. Disembark at 8.0am & march to rest camp where we form up in Divs & go into shed to rest. 10.30 am we draw rations & then hang about all day. 5.0 pm  we draw blankets 1 each & prepare for the night. Meet B.S.M LUPTON R.G.A. & have a nice talk. Turn in about 10.0 pm for a few hours rest.