When getting up at six
a.m. an orderly came round with the news that we were to be relieved
that day by B battery 161 brigade. We had no barrage that morning but
were getting 30 packs led by one man and taking them across country
to the position. There was a very thick fog and we had much trouble
in leading horses to the position. Of course they did not close on
the heels of one another and got lost themselves. Some came up the
Tramway, one cutting his leg very badly on a steel sleeper, and three
did not get up to the guns at all. Siggers turned up just as we were
in the middle of shaving and so I handed him my message from brigade.
They had had no information of the relief at all and he was rather
surprised. After taking him round the guns and to the OP, he started
down but returned a little later with the new major, named Hunt. He
turned out to be a Melbourne man. After Siggers had gone through the
office work with him he went down to the wagon lines and I showed him
the OP guns and everything there was to be known about the front. He
had four subalterns up at the guns that night, one at Arbre and the
remainder at the pillbox. The fog was awful. Our men got away about
four thirty p.m. and all seemed very pleased to get out of it. Soon
after going to bed, the Hun sent over gas, but the blanket at the
door seemed to keep it out.
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