Tuesday July 5th/15

Battalion marches thru Steenwerck, across the frontier into Belgium To Plougsteert ("Plug Street") of the Tommies) -- Billeted in the "Piggeries" -- a model farm -- supposed to belong to King Albert -- cement floor, pens, & Feeding troughs -- Four Canadian privates put in the space of one Flemish pig, Got bedded down at midnight, but floor unconscionably hard & of course no blanket. Beautiful wooded country around here -- cut everywhere by reserve trenches, barricades, and barbwire --The Chateau de la Hutterite on the hill back of Hyde Park Cor-- knocked all to pieces