Walford: Saturday, it was raining when I woke and continued very heavily until about eleven. Bailley went up to the guns for breakfast and remained there until about four p.m. I was at the lines most of the day and collected 600 rounds from the DAC and sent off two GS wagons to collect RE material from our old position, which by some stroke of good luck was still there having laid there since we were at Thiepval. Hoyland moved up to the guns at ten a.m. At four p.m I went over to Louvencourt to see if I could get some butter but had no luck. The infantry had been practising attacks on the country surrounding the wagon lines and had the trenches marked out with canvas to represent the enemy's lines. They did the whole show in pukka style, having men with flags to represent the barrage lighting flares when their objectives were gained and having an aeroplane in cooperation.
Bee: Went up to our new position with a working party. The Brigade are all close together and are all digging pits. We have four old positions just behind us for billets. I was up there all day. The positions were not decided on until eleven p.m. We started building three pits. Our gun pit billets are full of trench mortar bombs, which took us three hours to shift. About six p.m. a Colonel from the 3rd Division came along and told me that we had better stop work as it was his position, which was rather disheartening, but I with my one pip could not say anything but stopped work and came back and reported the matter. After much argument, we won the position, although it took the heads some time to sift out. Two Brigade majors were out until nine p.m. with a compass.
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