After 24 hours in this post we were relieved and marched back to an encampment in tents on the outskirts of Bapaume. The weather was …

In the early hours of our second night at Vaux on April 15 we were rather disturbed by the excessive number of shells which were …

While resting at Manitz camp on April 8, 1917, I was again ordered to wear a stripe on my arm and obeyed so that from …

On the third day out of the one, that is April 6, 1917, we packed up and followed the duckboard tracks and moved across our …

After five days of this kind of work in the neighbourhood of Le Sars, our battalion received orders to enter Bapaume, which had fallen the …

I therefore made my way down the half flooded and shell holed road, past Le Bargue a distance of about four kilometres until I arrived …

On February 24, 1917, the school broke up and we were taken in motor lorries back through La Houssoye to Albert, and were deposited at …

About two hundred yards down the slope of the ridge behind us were stationed row upon row of 18 pounders and 4.5 howitzers which fired …

On the morning of the fourth day after my return, therefore, we set off on our route march in the mist and drizzling rain and …