Trenches 134-142

Sets 6h. 57m.]. AUGUST, 1915.   [Day 13h. 51m. long

THURSDAY 26. [238-127]

Half-day in trenches - Spent afternoon plotting in the General's bedroom -- 2 6" HE. shells come over at 2 pm. -- one landing directly in front & other directly behind battery 150 yds back of La Petite Mungue where we are.-- Splinters drop all around but nobody hurt-- the 3rd shot, if it had come, would have got the battery sure. The court-martial in the garden beat a hurried and undignified retreat for shelter.

FRIDAY 27. [239-126]

Baxter & I in trenches all day -- Exceedingly hot work -- Start chained compass traverse, throwing tape over traverse or chaining in rear of firing trench 'at the double'. Manage to get 100 foot chords in most places -- Pretty risky chaining down ditch of Messiness Road, as raked by fire of tho German high-command trenches Gen.