Mc’Inorville, several of the party could not do the return trip with a patient. The whole caved right in from Mc’Inorville I slump thro the mud up by the tank & make the Bapaume road feeling that a Blighty would be a Godsend. I get to the Quarries at 5.35 AM. So ends our R.S.M’s half hour ration guard. slice some of the mud off my clothes, strip, & roll up in some lovely blankets, & try once more to get a sleep. Fritz has been fairly quiet today.
Thursday Oct 26. Lard in bed all day. two letters & a card from dear Belle. I write to Belle No 46 rolled up for the night at 7. PM. Some 13th boys on the way up to relieve some of our boys in the chateau, one of the 13th boys get shot thro the bean against the old tank - 200 yards from Bapaume Rd. Friday Oct 27. up 8.30 Pack up & get out. all my clothes wet thro. now been off for 36 hours Go to Tara Hill to use as our M.D.S a tent hospital situated on the Bapaume Rd other side of Albert
