crest of a ridge + the station is a piece of tarpaulin hung over one side of a pill box, every time a fellow stands up a Fritz sniper takes a pot at him. He got two at this sport yesterday. It took us two hours to get to it we were taken in by the cross country route it took us two hours hard work to get there up to our knees in mud a dicky clinging mud. We stepped under the canvas + found three stretcher cases waiting to be brought out, our boys had been hit so hard during the day they had left us some to clear. we each started off in the dark with a case. we had to use the mule track from the bottom of the ridge as to go overland was simply committing suicide for we should have all got drowned as hundreds of others had on this front. It’s a carry of a mile + a quarter
