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Date: April 9th 1917
Diary

Mon. Apr. 9 -

Work as usual till supper time. Then we got word that we had to move our wagon lines further up as guns were now out of range. So there was an hour of much fussing about, then we got away. We went three or four miles to Mont St. Eloy near Ecoivres. At Mont St. Eloy is a ruined church said to have been shelled in Franco Prussian War of 1870 and again in this. We had not got half way when it got very dark and begun to hail and rain. We finally got to our new position. The gun teams had to go up right away with limbers to advance the guns. The rest of us spent a rather chilly night on ground with a tarpaulin over us.