Mar 30th We establish the orderly room, and Bert is to remain at Anzin, to act for the transport lines, Staff and I get along all right, we have to work in a steel helmet and gas masks at the alert, a number of times we have to “beat it” into the dug-outs to wait for the shelling to stop, he smashed the cookhouse and played hell with our camp, at night we go to sleep again in the orderly room, but the gas-guard (G.O.W. Hicks) makes us retire into the dugout at about three a.m. not that we required very much making when we woke up and heard the shelling. From then until we moved out we worked in the orderly room in the daytime (when we were not in the dugouts waiting for him to cease fire) and slept in the depths of the earth at nights, I dont wonder the 2/2 London Field Ambulance were so anxious to get away.
