Rise at five
forty-five. See the horses watered and fed then hit out for the guns
at about six a.m. I was somewhat surprised to find two batteries of
60-pounders down the road all pointing due south and on getting
through Havrincourt to find horses and men moving about as usual in
full view of Bourlon wood. On reaching the guns found they knew
nothing and so I could give them quite a lot of information about the
situation in the south. It never seemed to dawn on them how close we
were to being cut off and I don't think it dawned on many of us how
close we had been to a disaster as, if the Hun had not been stopped
where he had, two corps at least would have been captured. As it was
a CRA and an RTO were amongst the captured and that is saying a
good deal. On getting back to the lines, I find Armytage has
collected a motorbike and wants me to set her going. He had got it
off the salvage dump. There was not anything very wrong, though it
had received very bad treatment, as most of these government machines
do.
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