Showery morning. Fine later. Rather heavy bombardment by the enemy about 4.30 pm. Minnies , Oil Tins & all other sorts, all shook up but no casualties. Quiet night. Aircraft inactive. Italy declares war on Germany. Roumania declares war on Austria.
Showery morning. Fine later. Enemy Arty active. Trench mortars, Minnies etc. Sg. SLATER Pte LINES wounded. Retaliation poor. Anzac Arty. Come in line. About 4.30pm big shock fell, no outward explosion. Huns blew camouflet. Sg. SLATER died of wounds.
Nice morning. Aircraft active. Allies aeroplane brought down in enemy lines AA Guns. Fritz active about 1.0 pm. Whizz Bangs & Heavies. Pte MATTHEWS killed. Rain at night. Garage On all day. Anzac miners come into the line.
Nice day. Spend day in cleaning up & making place as sanitary as possible. Awful job. Enemy shelled in afternoon with 5.9 no damage. Went to take over front line about 7.0 pm. Nearly caught with Whizz Bangs at corner if Jackson St. & Cutting. Near thing. Pte WILSON killed. Pte POULTON wounded. Take over line, very bad & dirty. Relief complete about 1.0 am. Take over from 60th Can. Infy. S.M. FULLER 60th Can. Infy.
Nice day. C.M. Sgt Kinchin. Stand by for trenches. Parade 3.0 pm. for trenches. March to Railway Dugouts very tiring. ? en route. Take over from 58th Can. Infy [Canadian Infantry] Very dirty. Bttn arrive about 11 pm. Relief complete about 1.0am. CSM ALLBRIGHT & RSM 58th. Leamingtonian
Nice day. Training parade 10-12 noon. Very quiet.
Nice day. Cleaning up. Drums play in camp 5.30 pm. Very quiet. Good sleep.
Nice morning. Rain in afternoon. Very quiet. Relieved by 13th R. Welsh Fus 11pm. No casualties. Relief very late. Arrived K.L. Camp 5.10 am.
Very wet morning. Fine afternoon. Prepare for relief, which is cancelled about 2.30 pm. Very glad as trenches are bad through rain. Quiet day. Bad night, rats make a terrible noise.
Fine morning. Swim 7.00 am. Very nice. Inspection by C.O. 10.30 am. Rain. Garage off.
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