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May [August actually]
home late in afternoon & warned to get into Battle-Order. to go up the line joined the Btn about midnight, it is badly cut up. 24th Back near the horse lines again supposed to be spelling 25th Pulled out of bed at 2 a.m. & moved up closer to the line, as Fritz is retiring. 27th moved from Dugout up past Bray. I fell in wire & bung -ed up my knee. 28th Btn hopped the bags & I had to stop with [cookera?] 29th moved up onto ground taken on 28 There are a queer collection of dead Fritzs, horses & smells about the joint 31st Moved from Curlu up forward, & went in reserve. We were prepared for another hop over but it did not come off. 1st Out salvaging & burying dead. Moved back again to Suzanne. 3rd & 4th Living in the old huts, and working rebuilding the camp. 5th Moved back near Curlu
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Sept.
Stopped about a week in dugouts. 12th Moved up again behind Peronne. 13th On working party, making road. German Plane brought down in flames in the night. 15th Sunday, Church para -de. Went for swim in Somme in afternoon. 16th Marched to Peronne for a bath. We are having good weather, and doing a lot of swimming in the river. 17th Battalion parade. 18th & 19th Out on the range with Lewis Gun, and German machine guns. 24th We have been doing a Route march every day and a stunt after it.
