• Returned to trenches-fairly quiet.
• Boys longing for a charge.
• Bombardment on right and left is fierce.

• Heavy bombardment all day.
• Four shells over at a time.
• Boys are calm.
• Saw QM Sgt. Fee for the first time since I came in trenches.

• Little doing.
• One man down.
• Very cold at night.

• Everything quiet.
• Received letters.
• Nothing unusual.

• Wet all day.
• Saxons bombardment all day.
• A few casualties.
• Wrote letters home.

• Fierce bombardment.
• Cpe Frankland, Pte. Hannahan, & Pte. Taylor injured.
• Rum issued-the boys are pleased.
• Received letters.

• Fierce bombardment all day.
• Spent most of the day in the dugout.
• Colour lights sent up by the enemy but stopped by our Artillery.

• Bright morning with fog.
• Quiet in trenches.
• Relieved by 1^st Battalion.
• Left at 8:00AM and arrived at La Clytte at 12:00PM.
• Awful cobble roads.

• Stayed in billets all day.
• Heavy artillery all along the line.
• Plenty of Calvary about.
• Received parcel and letters from Mother and girl.

• Heaviest bombardment heard so far.
• Had Divine Service and sing-song at night.

• Physical drill and general exercise.
• Guns worked all day.
• Wrote letters home.

• Went with Cpl. Scott and Lieut. Stewart to trenches near Dickebusch.
• Plenty of mud.
• Held by P.P.C.L.I. last year.

• Bombardment awful-the earth trembled.
• Naval guns used.
• Heavy fog and wet.

• Plenty of English troops about.
• Route march through Dickebusch-village awful.

• Left La Clytte at 7AM.
• Passed Dickebusch at 9AM.
• Arrived in trenches held by P.P.C.L.I. and KRR at 12 noon.
• All quiet.

• Awful bombardment and a few casualties.
• Received letters.
• Trenches rotten-plenty of mud and filth.
• Nights seem long.
• Prussian Guards again.

• Plenty of artillery fire all afternoon about Ypres.
• Quiet along our lines.
• Heavy fog towards night.
• Received letter from Sydney.
• Rebuilding dugouts and repairing parapets.

• Fierce bombardment.
• Received three letters.
• Our Artillery did great work.
• Extremely cold during the day and night.

• Sun warm but only towards night.
• Cold, fogs, and mist
• News of German ships sunk by our submarines in the Baltic Sea.
• Bombardment still awful.

• Rather quiet: occasional artillery duels.
• Wrote letters.
• Bitterly cold all day.
• Evening quiet.
• Night fearful.

• Morning quiet.
• Left trenches for Reserves at 3PM.
• Relieved by the 20^th.
• Back with guns.
• Artillery going strong.

• Morning grand-fine.
• Fatigue parties out.
• Fairly heavy bombardment.

• In charge of Fatigue party of 50 men all morning.
• Extremely heavy bombardment in the evening.
• Presented with a dandy flash by my old pal QM Sergt. Fee.

• Divine Service at 2PM at the Graveyard.
• Buried two lads.
• Quiet but damp.

• Left the Reserves at 8AM and reported to HQS at 9AM.
• Proceeded to French Instructional School and Experimental Farm.

• Experimented on periscopic sight-fine sight.
• Plenty of rain and mud.
• Received letters.

• Trench work very instructive.
• Saw Jack at (Camp) Billets.

• Worked on wire-lads not at all bad.
• People of the house are most peculiar.
• Had a sing-song in tents put up by us.

• Received more letters and wrote quite a lot back.
• Worked on rifles-good results-pleased.
• Wet and damp-plenty of mud.
• Wire work from 4PM to 7:30PM.

• Passed out on class.
• Returned to Battalion in Mobile Reserve.
• Lost more men.
• Awfully dirty bush.

• Awful bombardment; shells bursting all about and plenty of rain.
• Received letters and a small parcel.

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