for supper with Cam & Bert, Concert in evening Sunday Oct 8. Mass 9 AM. found everyone packing up to leave on my return from church Pork dinner. left at 1.15 PM. after striking tents of officers etc. very muddy. put all our packs into the horse ambulances. have supper by roadside, arrive at Herissart by 10 PM did last five miles in two hours no rest. get a shake down on a brick floor barn yard. plastered with mud, slept well rather cold. Monday Oct 9. Breakfast in field Thanksgiving day - had butter - 2½ on my “blip” march to Warloy arriving about 11.30 AM still no mail received or sent. put into an old stable with thirteen other fellows, to send not more than one letter a week, new order.
Tuesday Oct 10. Put camp into order Hurrah!! had two letters from my Belle. sleep in afternoon, fatigue in evening. Hospital tent orderly from 9 PM to 7 AM, 32 patients most of them slight wounds met some 43rd boys. 700 went over 163 answered roll call two
