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 to 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
