We were on the whole very lucky and beyond the ordinary discomfort inseparable from trenches in the winter suffered but little. I think in my last letter I described this [section] as very quiet, well it is too, compared to [yours] but its not without its little excitements, one morning the Bosch treated us to a cloud gas attack which however was a failure from his point of view as more of us were caught napping, the men have been [?] [?] in the [?] of their gas helmets so they all had them on practically as soon as the gas gong and horns sounded. I know it didn't take me 5 seconds to whip mine on! Then we had fore three consecutive days a light and medium trench mortar bombardment and lastly a scrap in no man's land with a Bosch patrol, which we [scuppered] and took 3 prisoners, a weedy lot, one had the Iron Cross