Busy all day as usual. Got tent into pretty good running order.
3 February 1917; Saturday
Same as usual. Weather very cold. Kept busy all day.
2 February 1917; Friday
Busy as usual. Rumours of the Division moving.
1 February 1917; Thursday
Up as usual at 7 o’clock. Still frosty and cold. Busy all day in tent.
31 January 1917; Wednesday
Up at 7 o’clock. Got breakfasts as usual. Went up town. Frost still very heavy.
30 January 1917; Tuesday
Up at 7 o’clock. Fed tent and cleaned up. Had some trouble with a CCS man, who had violent pains in his abdomen. Managed pretty well and finished about 6.30. Got a bit of a letter written to Franchie. Started in a new tent.
Newspapers mention slight advance on the Somme and capture of 350 prisoners.
29 January 1917; Monday
28 January 1917; Sunday
Up as usual at 7 o’clock. Had two to look after and a lot of trouble. The DMS1 came round unexpectedly in the afternoon and told me off about some dirt outside one of the tents. Said I was incompetent and must be taken off the job. Sergeant Powell told me afterwards it was too rotten. We laughed over it at night. Received postcard from Mrs Inwood to say that Franchie was in an isolation hospital asking me to write.
DMS: Director of Medical Services. ↩
27 January 1917; Saturday
Up at 7 o’clock. On two tents through Toase going sick and kept very busy all day.
26 January 1917; Friday
Up at 7 o’clock. Kept busy all day. Finished about 7 o’clock at night. Pretty unwell with migraine again. Went straight to bed.