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.

Dickebusch. Hair cut in morning. Dinner out again, steak, potatoes and tomatoes, pineapple and cream and coffee. Nothing doing again today.

Dickebusch. Go out to dinner, eggs and chips, then chase round to find a place for coffee as no-one is supposed to sell anything to drink before six o’clock here. Nothing doing all day.

Dickebusch. Go to coffee shop and write letters, and have my stripe sewn on by Flemish girl there. On fatigue in evening up to R 2. Raining.

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.

Reninghelst. Clean up. Rifle inspection and pay parade. Visit the ‘Mudlarks’ in the evening.