• More fatigues, all day.
• Lads having an awful time.
• Awfully fatiguing…
• Received letters.

• Took over the A La Brasserie Guard
• Plenty of fatigues
• Wrote letters.

• Plenty of noise.
• No news of the outside world.
• Inspection of Rifles
• New orders about saluting.

• Aero planes at work
• Left for La Clytte to be C. L. M. Sgt. for two weeks.
• Received letters and wrote 20 letters and P.C.’s

• A little noise from guns
• New orders. Transport all on the move.
• Saw Jack off at 3:15 PM
• Had tea at 7:30 PM with him.

• Things very quiet.
• Tent almost blown over.
• Sent Xmas cards.
• Boys in first line again.
• Am still with Jack.
• Had a dandy supper.
• Plenty of rain.

• Lovely morning.
• Transport on the move.
• Repaired tent.
• Artillery duel all day.
• Horse very restive.
• Received letters.

• Dandy day.
• Went to village.
• Awful noise of artillery.
• Big Lizzies going on left
• Kept up all night.

• Rain all day!
• Old Jack wet through.
• Some pleasure to look forward to …believe me!
• Bombardment fierce.
• Wrote and sent Xmas cards.

• Morning close and windy.
• Lads out of trenches in billets.
• So dark, I cannot see an inch in front.

• Very stormy and dark
• Awful weather, but am still smiling.
• German guns speaking.
• Rained all day.

• Divine Service
• Rainy and windy
• Shells very near.
• With Jack all day.
• Artillery duels at night
• Kept up all night.

• Quiet all day
• Awful rain and mud
• Artillery opened at night
• Kept up all night

• Nice and quiet
• Received letters
• Wrote home to girl

• Little doing
• Went to village with Jack
• Had a good time
• Received lots of letters.

• Quiet all day.
• Lads went to trenches
• Took provisions to trenches first, then to Ridgewood.
• Pleasant journey back.

• Morning fine
• Went for a ride
• Heavy bombardment
• Took rations to trenches
• Horse uneasy

• Rain all night but morning fine
• Received letters
• Germans bombarding but doing little damage.

• Awakened by shells at 4:00 AM
• Rifle fire, machine gun fire, and artillery fire going like Hell.
• Kept on all day.

• Artillery all night
• Stand to  till mid-morning
• Riding back from front line, shells bursting all around.

• Holes made by shells awkward for transport
• My horse lame-had to ride on transport
• Rats about a foot long running over me all night.

• Nothing unusual
• Took rations to first line and saw the boys
• Plenty of mud
• Shells from Germans over-No harm done
• No mail

• Still quiet
• Germans massing in front of us
• Something doing soon…
• Saw Jack, Bob, Jealous, Smith, Ward, and MacDonald

• Quiet but wet
• Christmas Eve under unusual circumstances
• Very wet under foot
• Took rations up and saw Jack

• Christmas Day
• Lovely morning-quiet!
• No post for four days-ports closed.
• Fairly quiet
• Saw Jack, had a fair time
• Bed early

• Fine morning
• Went to P.P.C.L.I. and saw Lieut. Newcombe (ex-21^st BN)
• Day rather quiet
• Took rations up to Coy

• Artillery duel going on
• Rumours about leave
• Went for a ride
• Things fairly quiet
• Went to Bailleue
• Saw rations to trenches
• Received letters

• Wrote lots of letters
• Horses inoculated
• Ammunition wagons on the move
• Shells dropping close
• No damage done

• Artillery duel all day
• Shells dropping on La Clytte killing 3 and injuring 6
• Boys killed and wounded in front line
• Rain……….

• Fairly quiet all day
• A few hit…not badly
• Saw rations up
• Artillery awful from 8:00 PM upwards
• Weather not bad
• Received letters

• Fierce bombardment all day
• Taking rations up to first line and was nearly unseated by the horse
• Plenty of rain
• Another different New Year.

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