Without being pessimistic I don’t think much of the position.

3rd August 1916

Quiet night. Stand to this morning 4.15. Stand down 4.45. rather too late. French patrols in front of me and in front of D Coy, got into touch with Bulgar patrols. Bombed and fired on each other.
Lay up as much as I could by day as did all the men. Two sentries by day in my trench and an observer on each gun. Being Coy [?]WIG O, I have the two guns under me. Six orderly men told off to fetch food and rations and water. Without being pessimistic I don’t think much of the position. We are about 5 miles South of Doiran Lake, 1 mile north of Kilindir – in fact the identical spot that is best worth shelling.
Mail in. Tom, [?]Gick (in 29 Gen Hos.), and Aunt Anne [?]Dunne with socks and dried flowers from her.
Stood to at 8 pm. Three British patrols out. Stood down 8.45. My left … sent to the right at 10.30 pm. Turned in 10.30 and slept.