Left Berteaucourt @ 6:30 passed thro’ Domart. Rested in cemetery. Reached Ribeaucourt @ 11 AM. General resides @ chateau with other Bde officers. Officers go for ride on horse-back thro’ the woods. Difficult billeting. Poor [houses?] cannot purchase food.
The family of de Bernfy resides in chateau but are away in Amiens @ present.
Friday 13 October 1916
Up at 5, off at 6 to Berteaucourt in Coy with L/c Hodge. Walk to Villers-Bocage & enter lorry there bound for Bernaville. Stop off @ Canaples. Walk to Berteaucourt & arr @ 1:30 PM. No billet for me so sleep in barn on straw with Cpl Harper.
