Fine morning, very cold. Prepare for trenches. Kits etc. packed up & sent away. Trench kits 2.0 pm. Reserve corps carry our blanket. Leave camp for Trenches 3.30 pm by lorry. Meet guides 6.0 pm B D Front A C Reserve. Very slow journey and very cold. Arrive H. Quarters 9.15 pm. Relief complete about 11.0 pm. Relieve 2^nd E. Lancs [East Lancashire Regiment] 8D S.M. W. PRICE; good relief. Hd Quarters jar of rum broken. Cold at night not much sleep, turn in about 2.30 am.