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, very hard frost, we examine hole made by bombs, very small, ground very hard, huts pierced in a good many places. We clean up & have an easy day. Aircraft alarm again about 8.30 pm, 4 more bombs dropped but some distance away, but very disturbing, not much sleep again.
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 4th 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.
Fine morning still frosty, washing feet & dusting with powder ready for tonight. We move HdQrtrs at 4.0 pm to P.C.TERRON & relieve H.B. relief complete about 8.30 pm, but we have no water & communication is bad. Send to D in Dump for water, get back about 2.0 am. Turn in about 2.30 am. Nice dug out & not cold. Fritz put one very near but no damage. 3 Sea [Seaforth Highlanders] killed on relief.
Fine morning again very cold, work on trenches continue, hostile aircraft again active, but ours come later & drive them back. We should move tonight but it’s cancelled until tomorrow. Very good, no rations early to bed.