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large ammunition dump with his air craft. Heavy explosions all night. makes our tent flap all night. lay in the slush & have a good sleep. Shells going over our tent to Albert. he is putting some shells into Albert with delayed action Monday & Tuesday Nov 6 & 7. Officers mess jumped my job & told Sergt Whitty to put me anywhere away from that mud-hole of a cook house do not like being a flunky. did not sign up for a B.P. Wed Nov 8 Send Belle a green envelope I get from Whitty, told her of a couple of trips sorry I told her Do a bit of road making, rumour of move up to Armatiers. no more to go up to Suicide Corner for dressing station on Bapaume Rd. Called for ward orderly, ward is a big doni tent 7 AM to 7 PM. 24 patients. Fritz shelled near us all night, quite a few gas shells. Thursday Nov 9. Tent fills up & had never over put them round the fire & ten were kept in A & D tent got 6 hours sleep Friday Nov 10. Had a shell drop near our tent digs a hole 5 foot deep. 102 & 4th