bed, first mail for three weeks We have to furnish escort for a sick officer & his batman to the Corner. I am next out. Greheme does the trip for me because I am in bed, When they return I swipe some beans etc & make a feed for em in the dug-out Monday Mar 26. I find Greheme in bed. we go into the R.A.P at 5.30. S.S.S. goes up to get some rum from Bull Cole.
Fritz holds us in the foot of 130 trench with 4.5’s do a merry widow thro the valley. Tuesday Mar 27. A stretcher case & two walkers at noon we have to hold them for an hour, Fritz is pounding the valley Bert & I look after the walkers. Very heavy shell fire. S.S.S. lounges in & then sticks around, I give him a couple of hurry ups arrive at Arras alley at 6.30 & leave there at 7 PM for Grand Servins with full pack & kit. arrive at Grand Servins at 10.15 PM & put into No 1 hut