get relieved after dark. by No 2 squad & return home to the A.D.S at Ablain about 1½ miles, no lights may be used after dark at Ablain & no smoke on Fritz takes a pot shot. When we have had supper we do not go to the dugout given us in the first place, but to a cellar about 300 yards away. it is a brick cellar, no work has been done on it at all, it is wet, muddy & smells fearfull we sleep best way we can. Saturday Jan 27 Pretty quiet for Kaisers birthday, we start in to find a stove for our hole & to make the place fit to live in but S.S.S tries to yank us out at 8.00 A.M & put us on wood fatigue we kick & get till noon to fix up a little, after dinner we fill sandbags to put on the roof of the new dressing room (cellar) & then go down to near the church to collect wood. for our A.D.S. at Ablain also for the M.D.S at Gd Servins, had supper & then loaded up two general service
