night as a working party another squad having gone up in the morning. very few at the Chalk-pits to day our guns are raising cane with Fritz & a good thing Bert Dent, runner to Mc’Inorville says its a hot run. Thursday Oct 19. Put on fatigue if you please by the mad R.S.M. of course I don’t finish the job. first time the unit has been up as far as this & we are working four posts ahead of this one. Rain all day called up at 4.30 PM to go into the line. go up the Bapaume road in a car, get as far as Bells Pit & I with Dent get bumped off & put in charge of Bells Pit. Major Bell came up but went back. Bells Pit is an old wine cellar of a ruin mansion of Pozieres, the debris of the place is on top of us to act as a detonator, a battery of 9.2 just across the other side of the road. Not a wink all night. the 87 & 102 & get lost & straggle out of
