We were able to procure some potatoes

TCD MS 10853 folio 70 recto

TCD MS 10853 folio 70 recto

[1915]

There were about 12 Bedfords and 8 Liverpools in this dug out and we had a very nice day, sitting round the fire hearing all the stories of those who had been out at the beginning. We were able to procure some potatoes from a neighbouring ruined farm for dinner and as I had plenty of Oxo cubes and Bully Beef I did well with regard to food. We had a few scares during the day, when there was a lot of rapid firing going on and we had to be ready to run to the trench if an attack started but nothing of the sort happened. In the evening a Sergt Major and Captain’s Orderley of the Norfolks came in to our dug out, both had been wounded by the same bullet which passed through the knee of the Sergt. Major and through