Fine morning. Barrage opens 5.30am. Seaforths [Seaforth Highlanders] & Kings Own attack, good progress & all objectives reached. Lots of prisoners & 5 guns taken, good many officers. Wet about 10.0am, rain nearly all day. We move back to Vereham at 4.20pm, arrive about 6.0pm. Stay the night. Fritz sending some HV over.
Fine day, aircraft active, we get orders to stand by. I take NCOs at 3.0pm. Rifle exercises. We move forward at 7,20pm to Verchain, wait there about 2 hours & then move to Querenaisy [?], arrive about 1.30pm. Fritz shelling a bit.
Fine morning, some rain later. Bttn [Battalion] do training. HdQrs pde [Head Quarters Parade] Battle Order. Concert at night, very good.
Fine day. Bttn at training. More civilians return. Lecture at 4.0pm by educational officer. Fine night.
Fine day. Bttn [Battalion] at training. Civilians start coming back. Quiet day aircraft active. Fine night aircraft again active.
Fine day. Bttn [Battalion] carries out training. Inspections of Hd Qrs by Adjt [Adjutant]. Bgde [Brigade] guard mounts at 12.0 noon. Concert at night attended by Brig Gen Green, all say it’s very good & it went off well. Fritz shells with HV at night.
Fine morning. Church services in the Schoolroom. Fritz shells at night.
Fine day. Brig Gen Green presents medals to the Transport Team that won the Bgde [Brigade] Tourney at Allouagne. Some shelling at night with HV Gun.
Fine but dull, spend day cleaning up etc.
Arrive Assembly Area at about 12.30am & dig in HdQrs [Head Quarters] in sunken road, very cold, we improve our trenches & wait for attack. Zero hour 4.0am. Heavy barrage 240 FGuns [Field Guns] in support of our Div [Division]. 11th Bgde Left 10th Bgde Right. Wks [Warwickshire Regiment] on Left, D of W [Duke of Wellingtons Regiment] Right, Seaforths [Seaforth Highlanders] support. Attack fairly successful, we get 1st & 2nd objectives & take VERCHAIN, held up by sunken road & heavy MGuns [Machine Guns] but do very well, take about 150 prisoners 12 MGuns & 2 TMortars [Trench Mortars]. Our casualties 94. Lt Martin killed, Lt Smith & Harrison Wd [wounded]. Get relieved by Kings Own about 10.0pm, very cold & tired.