Fine morning, snow later but not much Coys training. Bgde Guard 2.45 pm. Still very cold. No English mail. Dull & slight snow at night.

Fine early morning, snow later, very cold still. Training parades as usual. Brig. Gen. Visits camp, snow again at night, quiter, no Hun planes about.

Fine morning, another sharp frost, wind very piercing. Training parades for Coys. Working party of 250 in afternoon. Hun Planes up again at night, many bombs dropped, not much sleep, turn in about 2.30 pm. Bgde Gd. No English mail.

Fine morning still very sharp frost, no parades except Church at 10.30 am, inspection of huts by C.O. Working party of 250 in afternoon for aerodrome. Hun plane up about 6.30 pm not near us.

Fine still & very cold. Training parades commence but very few men, as we find 250 again on aerodrome. Heavy gunning but no news. I see in paper that Guynemu (French) was the pilot who fetched the Hun plane down in flames, it fell near MAURE PAS. Bgde Gd. 2.45 pm.

Fine again, still very cold, we get perished in our huts which are very big with badly fitted boards. Cleaning up again. Working party in afternoon of 200 men for aerodrome. Lecture at 5.30 pm on the work of contact aeroplanes. Better night, no alarms.

Fine morning, aircraft active. We move at 2.0 pm & march to Camp 112, very cold but nice march. Arrive about 4.30 pm, get settled down & turn in about 9.10 pm. Woke about 12.20 am by hostile aircraft dropping bombs. 4 dropped quickly on our camp, Capt. BEAMISH & Pte HUNT wounded, several Seaforths killed & wounded, & 1 R.I. Fus wounded. No more sleep that night.

Fine morning, much clearer than it has been for some days. Aircraft very active, fine fight, German brought down in flames on our side only 4 shots fired at it, another forced down in their lines. We get relieved at night by 4^th Suff [Suffolks]. HdQtrs leave about 8.0 pm, just get clear when Fritz starts his games, no casualties, march to Camp 18 where we arrive very tired about 1.30 am. Turn in about 2.0 am. Very cold & sharp frost.

Fine morning very cold still & frosty. Hostile aircraft active but do no damage, some shelling on both sides, fairly quiet. Rations up early & I turn in about 11.0 pm. Capt MONTGOMERY visits HQ in morning.