leave A.D.S (Bedford House) with three other boys of A section under the charge of Sergt Griffiths. first we go to Spoil bank dugouts, over Suicide bridge & then down to the Bluff dug-outs where Carruthers & I relieve two of C section boys. B.L. Turner & Bob Wilson are left to put us wise to the ropes. Our dugout is built in the bank of the Yser canal & it is in the apex of the Ypres salient, at night it seems that the flares going up on the front line, which is only a few hundred yards away) seems to form a circle of light. passage from the rear of our dugout into the front line. Sunday AUG 27. Still at the Bluff dugout in the line. Took two patients to the A.D.S. went by King Alberts chateau & got a rose from a bush that was once in a garden sent in to Belle. Heavy artillery fire both ways, a sniper with a Lewis machine gun has a post on the top of our dug-out & he draws quite a lot
