Kemmel 17.5.1915: Returned to trenches for 4 days.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

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MAY 17th. We went up to the trenches to relieve the 5th Battalion in T. 6. Trench on Reserve trench till MAY 19th. We were shelled heavy and had to retire into some dug outs close by, one shell dropped close and hit the M.G’s two only received slight scalp wounds.

[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]

May 17th. Went to communion in a field 8 a.m. Rained all morning & dull in afternoon. Set off to trenches near Dickebusch at 8-30 p.m. Wretched night raining all the time.

[3289 Pte George William Beardsley]

17th May 1915. Everything as usual, took stock of the medical drugs and went to the Hospital for new supplies. At night we went to the trenches at Rossingol. We had a very quiet night getting one man wounded at the dressing station about 3-30 a.m. He had a wrist broken with a bullet.

[2381 Pte. George Potter Bagshaw]