Mon. May 7 -

Rained a little. At noon, we changed our position. We left our guns and took over some R.F.A. guns a few hundred yards along the line to our left. The new gun positions were not nearly as well fixed up as ours. Guns closer to track and track higher. Big shells were dropping around when we arrived at new saps. Had just been there about five minutes when a piece of shell hit Pitcher, who was standing about a foot from me, in the back and wounded him badly - how badly I don't yet know. All that afternoon, shells dropped around our guns and all that night we got next to no sleep as there was a great deal of gas around and we had to wear gas respirators all night.