Fine day, very warm. I go up to Bttn about 9.0 am & superintend fumigation of clothing & bathing. New scheme to try & clean the men of lice. Works alright but I think it is almost an impossibility. Lively night with aircraft & artillery. Card from Dan.
Fine day. We get orders of Bttn relief tonight coming back to Busnettes. I go up in the afternoon & have a look round. Quiet at night. I write to Col Bowly War Office.
Fine day but not too bright, fairly quiet not much doing.
Wet miserable day. We can’t do much & things are fairly quiet. Plackett, Poste & I go out at night, have a very good time, back again at 9.10 pm. Plackett falls downstairs, lucky man, a black eye but no more.
Dull morning, finer later. Very quiet day.
Dull morning. The people here move away at 9.0 am to Les Sables De’Olonne. They have been very good to us & we shall miss them. Fine afternoon.
Lt Stretton & SM Gibson killed. What bad luck for our old hands up here.
Dull day. The wind goes down a bit until night time when it gets up again & we stand to as usual, but nothing happens.
Fair day, we get on with the checking of stores etc. & get it all completed by night. Orders received to stand by, rations do not move until 10.15 pm but everything is alright.
Fine day. I start in the morning & hand over to the new QM, everything turns out alright, he goes up at night & reports to the C.O. I get very downhearted but it can’t be helped.
Dull day, fairly busy all morning. The new QM Lt Bateman arrives about 3.0 pm, he belongs to the S. Staffs, seems alright. I get him fixed up alright.