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back-up their guns six times,

April 12th We move to Aux-Rietz. from which place the boys run two A.D.S’s, Vimy and LaChaudier, the same two sections work these A.D.S’s that were working the Posts at Chanteclaire, leaving “A” Section as a Pinch Section, for we are expecting something to happen all the time. while at this camp we get some fair ti midling weather, we have a fire at nights and sleep in the orderly room, the first night we are here, Staff “Caves in” and has to go to bed, never again to get up in France, I could see that now the strain is over he is done for, “petite mal” Bert Fletcher calles on me, he ought not to be back in France, but from what he tells me he made Blighty too hot to hold him

Where was he?
The war at this time

Battle of the Lys

On April 9, Germany launches Operation Georgette in Flanders. The attack overruns a Portuguese division and punches a 15-kilometer hole in the Allied line. Messines Ridge (captured in June 1917) is lost on April 11. On April 11, Field Marshal Haig issues his famous order: 'With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.' French reinforcements arrive to stabilize the line.