Isolated until further notice owing to one of our chaps catching measles. Nothing doing therefore.

Out at 4.00 a.m. Breakfast at 5.00 a.m. then learning the road again until 3.00 p.m. Bombs again dropped in the vicinity

Out at 4.00 a.m. Breakfast at 5.00 a.m. then learning the road until 12.00 nn. Rest of the day off. At 7.30 a.m. bombs were dropped in the vicinity.

Another move to Bray South. The river Somme runs through the camp. Thousands of German bodies underneath the ice. In afternoon we move to Froissy, our final depot.

[N.B. it has been plausibly suggested that ‘thousands’ may be an exaggeration, but clearly it was an impressive number and probably a very shocking sight.]

Unloading wagons all day at loop. Went to service at night at Soldiers Club.

Same as yesterday. Went to Guards canteen and had a good feed of biscuits.

Unloading wagons all day at loop. Nothing unusual to note.

Shells flying all around us. We did not know where to go out of it, but it has finished now. A quiet day otherwise.

Arrived back from work at 5.30 a.m., then had to wait until 7.30 a.m. for breakfast. Then got in bed for two hours, then unloading wagons again until 8.30 p.m. Had an excellent tea to-day.

Working all night until 5.30am. February 6th. Unloading military trucks. 2ft. gauge. Nothing to eat except two biscuits since dinner on 5th February. Very cold. Had a job to keep warm.