To Bn Head qtrs. to see Sergeant Major re disposition re barber. Nos. 1+2 Co’s go to Trenches tonight at 5 PM with 3+4 in support. We leave 5:45 PM for Tea Farm near Wulverghem. Carry one blanket in our packs with overcoats on. It’s raining hard all night. The whole Co. enter the barn – 15 + 16 Platoon in one barn.
Monday 10 January 1916
Coy goes to trench by 2 platoon, 5916, 13+14 tonight under Captain Barclay
I go to the battered town of Neuve Eglise. The Church yard is torn up by shells and several graves exhumed. Several English British Regts have men interred here. The Church a total wreck. I have some coffee at a house fortunately left untouched. They unfold their story to me of Bosch versus British in earlier days. On to Wulverghem visit the ruins of Church & convent then on to Lindhoek. Passed dressing station of Red Cross. Saw several graves of 29th Bn. which had been exhumed by German shells the day before. Sergt Major Patterson goes on leave & Pt Palmer comes back.
