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an old Fritz concrete gun pit with half the roof blown off, single galvanized iron partly covers the other half Care at midnight, we catch it real hot getting back to the R.A.P. Beaucoup overhead stuff, then H.E + machine gun fire. we then get lost + Jere Duncan bawled me out + I had a laughing fit. I get a B. letter at Heralds + read it in the M.O’s dugout.

Tuesday May 22. Work between Heralds + Paulins, two cases, Heralds Post is shelled all day Wed May 23rd Call at 1:30 AM + do a trip to Paulins. return at 3:30 AM. another call at 4:30 AM back at 9 AM. Warm on both trips. We do not relieve Barker squad in the R.A.P. because we have worked all night.

Thursday May 24. Work between Heralds + Paulins again, a little rain. do three trips with cases to Paulins + then run to McGill with J. Tait. to get six new men. Friday May 24 1917.

Where was he?
The war at this time

French Army in crisis

By late May 1917, mutinies have broken out in 21 French divisions. The incidents follow a pattern: troops moving up to the line refuse orders, often after drinking. They demand an end to the offensive. Some attempt to march on Paris. The scale of the crisis is kept secret from the Germans. Had they known, an attack might have broken through the weakened French lines. The German failure to detect the mutinies has been called one of the worst intelligence failures of the war.