Wednesday 9th February 1916
Reninghelst. Orderly Sgt. March off to Godewaresvelde after dinner, have tea outside the church and entrain at 9 pm. Take plenty of grub and wine with us. 34 in the truck. Woodhouse drunk on march.
Reninghelst. Orderly Sgt. March off to Godewaresvelde after dinner, have tea outside the church and entrain at 9 pm. Take plenty of grub and wine with us. 34 in the truck. Woodhouse drunk on march.
Dickebusch. March off to Reninghelst starting 7.30 am to go into camp for the day. Walk into Poperinghe in evening with Cpls. Turner, Richardson and Spence and have a good clean up and dinner:- Soup, roast beef and potato pudding, sausages and spinach, macaroni cheese, apples, oranges and nuts, coffee, Chateau Pomery. Identification disc burnt by action of chemical in French soap.
Dickebusch. Nothing doing until I go up to R 2 with fatigue party, and on the way back have to take a sick man to ‘C’ Coy. Billets about two miles from ours.
Reninghelst. Get boots repaired in morning. Panicked off in afternoon to Dickebusch where we return to our old billets. Start a Corporals’ Mess. Rain in evening.