Belle. Good old Sam. I feel good to-night. Monday Oct 30 On Tara Hill Fritz shelled Albert & Rail head. Tuesday Oct 31. awful stiff neck. feel kind of rotten. letter from Belle written on Thanksgiving day. makes me feel better. Wed Nov 1. Bad luck did not do much except wiggle Thursday & Friday Nov 2. Back still bad get some dope from Wilfred Dodds, hear about Herb Smith guess he got hit at Courcelette, or Mouquet’s Farm only heavy fighting by Canadians on Sept 14. Three letters from my sweet heart. Sat Nov 4 Three eight hour shifts to go every day to work on a dressing station long way up Bapaume road, right under the snout of Fritz to be 30 ft long. Every time we go to get a piece of lumber Fritz slings over a whizz-bang. Our O.C. must be a nut to think of having a station there Sunday Nov 5. Officers mess got some good eats. Mass in a dugout. Did not hear Mass. Fritz got a
