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eye on us + send over an aeroplane to look things over. Filling timber all day to fill up shell holes. + make roads Monday Aug 13 Practice + wrote. Tuesday Aug 14 Working party again at Montreal Jnct. Still digging while Fritz looks on. jolly hard work.

Wed Aug 15 Big Canadian mail from everybody but my Belle Thursday Aug 16 Norman + I dig at one shell hole all day Friday Aug 17 Practice + Ball game Saturday Aug 18 Break up house in Souchez ruins to provide brick for roads of our new hospital. The 11th come up + help us a little, we go up + down to-day in a G.S wagon Sunday Aug 19. Go to Mass at Gouy Servins but no soldier Mass, so I write to B. at C.A. hut. Monday Aug 20.. Go up to Montreal Jnct on working party Tuesday Aug 21. In camp at Gd Servins. Wed Aug 22 Working party in Souchez getting out timber, + bricks. Thursday Aug 23. Camp moves out to Ritz

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The war at this time

Battle of Hill 70

On August 15, the Canadian Corps attacks Hill 70 near Lens under their new commander, Arthur Currie. Rather than assault the city directly, Currie convinces his superiors to take the high ground overlooking it; then let the Germans counterattack into prepared defenses. The plan works. Over the next ten days, the Germans launch 21 counterattacks, all repelled with heavy losses. Canadian casualties total 9,200; German losses reach approximately 20,000.