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“B” & “C” Sections go into the line and relieve an English Field Ambulance, the Imperials seem awfully pleased to get away from the spot, as Fritz had come over and took some of their trenches, and had even captured a bunch of men, including about twenty of their R.A.M.C. unit, everything was in a mix-up, no-one knew anything, no guides, no nothing as we said, find your way in best you can seemed to be the motto of the relieved bunch, I never saw such a place to establish an orderly room, the orderly room was a small bow hut, with two layers of sand bags all over it, just out side the door was a deep dugout, about fifty feet deep, and connected with several other dugouts, Staff and I try to get a sleep in the new orderly room rather than go into the dug-outs, this fresh place is called CHANTECLAIRE, and it is a roaster not a rooster for he shells