Showery morning, very dull, not much doing & fairly quiet.

Fine morning. I go & visit Lt Dowrick & CQMS Blewitt at 23CCS [Casualty Clearing Station], the latter very depressed. Set rations away alright. Dull at night. Guns very noisy. Lt Stretton takes over Transport Offr [Officer]

Fine morning. Busy getting things squared up from the smash the previous night. Attend the funeral of the 4 killed the previous night. Nice ceremony. Quiet at night. 2^nd Seaforth pipers play us to the cemetery etc. Buried at LA PUGNOY.

Fine morning. Fairly busy but day passes quietly. Rations leave at night 7.0 pm, but get shelled en route. B Coys rations blown to bits. Sgnt Bird, Pts [Privates] Cooper, Boswell & Ling killed. Lt Dowrick, CQMS Blewitt & LC Eyles wounded. Bad show indeed.

Fine day, fairly quiet.

Dull again & inclined to rain. Not much doing in the line, but plenty of work for us.

Dull day. We get orders to prepare to move, but it doesn’t come off & we stay here, plenty of work.

Fine morning, dull later. We get a pig sent down from the line, and keep it for rations, very nice indeed. Bttn moves into the line again.

Fine morning. I go for a ride in the afternoon to AMES to visit detail but meet them on the road moving up to L’Eclame, hand over the watch to RSM Meade get back about 5.0 pm.

Fine morning. Bttn get orders to move at 8.30 am but cancelled until 6.0 pm. They then move to L’Eclame, not much rest, Bttn nearly worn out.