Up at 7 o’clock. Finished at noon and set out to Ernie at the battery¹ and arrived about 3.45. Found that Ernie had gone down sick. Swan and the red-haired lad set me down to Dikbush A D S². I was informed that Ernie had gone to Reninghelst³. Walked down to Reninghelst and arrived there about 7 o’clock. Stayed about half an hour with Ernie and then returned to headquarters.

Bombs dropped all round in the night.

1. Ernie was stationed at Dikkebus near Ypres in Belgium; see note on 5 July ↩

2. Dikbush A D S: Dikkebus (B) Advanced Dressing Station;. ↩

3. Reninghelst, now Reninghelst (Flemish), about 6km E of Boeschepe (A). ↩