the relay at Caberet Rouge dugout (in arras alley) carrying full pack, overcoat, three blankets 24 hours rations & a sack of rations about a mile & a half thro a narrow trench deep with mud (Caberet Trench) I leave Hospital corner last & land at the relay with Bob Beecher last, plastered with mud. I am on No 1 squad, but No 2 has gone up because I was not there Tuesday Mar 6. Cleaning duckboards of trench outside our dugout. leave relay at 5.30 PM. for the R.A.P. The R.A.P is on the top side of Vimy R. close in behind our line & near the Stokes guns position we go thro 130 trench to get there & then thro death valley, Walking case at 7.30. Stretcher case at 10 PM. take him down the face of the ridge, no path but backup shell holes, very dark night, I am on tail end & slide on my rump in the mud, Oh you telephone wires. carry overland along foot of
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution has begun. Strikes and protests in Petrograd that started on February 23 (March 8) have spread. Soldiers are refusing to fire on demonstrators; entire regiments are defecting to the revolution. Tsar Nicholas II's authority has collapsed. On March 2 (March 15), Nicholas abdicates. A Provisional Government takes power. The Allies hope Russia will continue fighting, but the army is disintegrating. The Eastern Front will effectively cease to exist by year's end.
