Start for brigade OP at
five thirty a.m. with two signallers and an intelligent infanteer
from 99th brigade HQ. We had rather a difficult walk, crossing
trenches and wire in the dark. The latter is very difficult to see
against the brown soil. The light was fair throughout the day and
plenty of movement could be seen on the German side, also a TM
firing from Kangaroo redoubt. We fired a few rounds HE bursts of
fire on them and they stopped movement and all. Towards dusk a few
machine gun bullets began whistling over the crest, very persistently
We left after a burst of bullets at four thirty p.m., carrying two
stoves. We had not gone very far before we had to fall flat for the
machine gun bullets. However we soon got over the crest and away from
the bullets. Then the fun commenced. We got into a maze of wire and
trenches in the dark and eventually got into the canal by the ramp
and walked right back through the cutting to the railway bridge. It
took us two and a quarter hours to come back and we were just about
beat having crawled over so many trenches and through so much wire.
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