Quiet night. Sniping active on both sides during the day. Enemy artillery more active. MAILLY-MAILLET shelled between 5 & 6 pm. Fine. 1 man killed 5 wounded.

More rain during the night. German Machine Guns active. 2 men wounded in “C” Coy’s trench from Shell fire between 8 & 10 pm. Enemy Snipers active during the day. A Coy claimed one German hit.

Quiet night and day. One enemy Aerial torpedo fell near C Coy without damage.

A little finer but trenches very wet. Our Snipers successfully kept down enemy’s snipers. “A” Coy reported having shot two Germans. Patrols report very little German work.

A little shelling with Field Guns & a few trench Mortars on our left Coy, otherwise quiet day. Patrols report little doing in German trenches. Germans called out “We are Saxons, you are Anglo-Saxons. What are we fighting for?” Rain at night. Trenches in bad condition.

Relieved 1^st Kings Own Regt in trenches at 9 pm. Relief complete 11pm. We now occupy another Coy’s frontage on our right Order of Coys. A.D.C. right to left with B Coy in Reserve. Took over WARWICK CASTLE as our Hd Quarters, Quiet night.

Fine morning, heavy rain in afternoon. Working party 250 men for 3^rd Line.

Fine. Working Party found again as on 29^th

Fine. Working Party found again as for yesterday.

Colonel Poole left for England to take over a Brigade at 11 am. Band of 12^th Field Ambulance played him off. Major G.N.B.Forster took over command of the Battalion.

Working parties of 200 men found by Battalion for work on 3^rd line Trenches

Battalion was paraded at 10 am. for Colonel A.J.Poole to bid them farewell & he said he thanked all ranks for the hearty support he had received during his tenure of Command & looked on his promotion not as a compliment to himself but as a compliment to the Regiment.