are hero’s, he also tells us we are to leave in a day or two for the Somme front, & then yaps he knows how good we shall stand the strain etc. Wed SEP 20. Pack up plates, basins, knives, forks etc into the panniers & we had to sling the grub to the patients any old way we could. Hell of a bum job. The whole unit gets C.B. Will gets a letter from Ella saying Belle is getting thin, gives me the blues. I have a letter from my dear girl hinting the same thing, makes me feel rotten. Friday SEP 22 Got up with the humps & the blues. & keep them all day. Thinking of my dear girl. Bless her dear loving little heart. tried to write Belle a nice letter No 36. I am afraid it was a poor attempt. Hear convent girls practicing singing. went to Church in Locre for half an hours private prayer. Heavy straffing kept the windows on the rattle the whole time, back to my billet at 7.30 PM. had a chat with Bill about
