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to hold for a few days whilst we get a rest after four months steady fighting & our gigantic drive. I lead two squads to down turn I fall into a six foot trench & get a fine old bumps in the dark, we leave two squads (the two next out) to open up a new station in a place we have captured Givenchy. but two cases come along so we go back to Blue Bull to open up the new station in Givenchy at daybreak. Capt W Creighton calls for me as a runner & I have to set out with an eleventh fellow & find Norfolk Hqrs. St Vincent tunnel, No 2 far dugout & Tottenham tunnel. pitch dark. back up mud shell holes & water galore. & on the way back we get lost once more & are hiking over to Fritz & only just find out in time. I fall into a mine crater, then I know where I am. get back to Blue Bull at 3 A.M. & the 11th have to furnish two squads for the new station. Saturday Apl 14. Carry all our stuff to Dingwall Tunnel, we all go