Had a good initiation to this much talked of front. Capt Mustard. Jerry Hall & I are going along trench to find a dug out when Fritz slings over quite a few very close. his last one plump itself into the parapet just at our head we all three flop, the shell kicks a lot of dirt onto me as I am top. but thank goodness it was a dud & did not go off, or - finis - Thursday Oct 12th Call at 4 AM. & sent to Pozieres cemetery relay station, stay until 9 AM & then sent back to Chalk pits. I then got some grub. Heavy shell fire from batteries all around us. Parcel from the very best little girl that ever was. cake from Auntie Pepin Oh!! so welcome.
Remainder of S.B. come up from the Brickfields near Albert, to us at the Chalk pits on the Bapaume Rd. Bill is not up. Toney is up with the water cart. Have a big feed at supper thanks to parcels. Heaps of fragments & limbs lying all around the
