Bombs began to drop around us

TCD MS 10822 folio 24 recto

TCD MS 10822 folio 24 recto

[May 30th 1917] has been trained to grow right into our house. The weather is warm and sunny, and as long as we are not much shelled it is very pleasant. Saw all the Companies during the afternoon. Towards evening a very heavy thunderstorm came on which flooded us all out and made the trenches horrible again.
May 31st. A fine day after the storm. C Coy were very unlucky in the morning getting five officers wounded by a shell. Two however were very slightly hit and could carry on. Otherwise the day was uneventful.
June 1st. Beautiful weather. The trenches are drying up nicely. Had a quiet day with very little shelling except at night when they put some over very close to our house.
June 2nd. A hot morning. Discovered some excellent asparagus beds in Wancourt, so sent over to collect some as well as gooseberries for making tarts and rhubarb. Lacy came back laden with irises, paconees, snowballs, weigalias, and day lilies.
June 3rd. Another glorious day. The Boche spent from 10 a. m. till 4 p. m. in firing at three batteries about 500 yards away from us on the other side of the valley. He was putting 8 inch shells into them and before lunch his shooting was extraordinarily good, he got four direct hits on the guns but no one was hurt. As he devoted his time to counter batterywork, we in the trenches had a quiet day. In the evening I walked into Wancourt and looked through all the gardens where there were many nice flowers and shrubs. At midnight our relief by the 6th Somersets began and we got back to trenches near Neuville Vitasse by 3 a. m.
June 4th. A hot cloudless day. What a blessing this weather is. We spent the day in support: very quiet and peaceful. I went inside a derelict tank and inspected it carefully. It looked most uncomfortable. In the evening we were relieved by the 7th Bt. We moved back to a camp near Beaurains. Scarcely had we got there before bombs began to drop  on other camps around us and we had to put all our lights out. There was nothing near our camp.
June 5th. A very hot and lazy day. The men were all employed in bathing and inspections. In the evening the Oxfords band played and