Bivouacs pitched in a hopelessly wet place

4th December [1916]

Same awful weather as yesterday. Went out 10 am to reconnoiter the L7 position and found it – horrors! Bivouacs pitched in a hopelessly wet place and without any pretence of cover. Not back in camp until 6 pm.
This bloody move comes about by old Foley covering Smellie’s place and causing a general move. Nothing is ever done for the regiment by the Orderly Room and so as we were turfed out of the cookhouse Foucancourt, out of our train after Doiran, out of Sykes’ QM Stores in Cidenli, so we are going to be turfed out of our winter quarters here. The East Lancs can have what they jolly well like and we have the leavings.