Fine day. Bttn get orders to go back into the line at night. I go up to HQ at 2.0 pm & get bad news. A new QM [Quartermaster] is being sent to us & expected today, rotten luck but it can’t be helped. Bttn move up at 7.0 pm.
The diary of Regimental Sergeant Major George Beck
First World War diaries 100 years from when they were written during campaigns on the Western Front
