Dec 1916

December 1916 
1st Friday
Brévillers.
Smoke Helmet Drill, with box helmet.
The Unit play 5 N Staffs Lucheux in semi-final of cup.  Robbed.  Result Staffs 2 Unit 1. 
5th Tuesday
Left Brévillers by car with 10 of B Sect, for Bienvillers, and take over Dressing Station, plenty of runs on Ambulance to Gaudiempre. 
6th Wednesday
Bienvillers.
Gas shells poured into village.  Many journeys with gassed patients, some of which died. 
8th Friday
Left Bienvillers with Car of wounded, and had a breakdown on road to Souastre, and could not move for 5 hours.  The Car was towed to St Amand at 8.30pm. 
9th Saturday
Left St Amand on Ambulance as Orderly for Foncquevillers, continual journeys with sick and wounded to Couin.
A Sect work Foncquevillers. 
10th Sunday
Foncquevillers shelled continually, many journeys with sick. 
11th Monday
Foncquevillers.  Continual journeys with sick to Couin and wounded to Gaudiempre. 
14th Thursday
Left Foncquevillers at night, returned by another car.  We returned to Head Quarters at St Amand for 6 days. 
18th Monday
Left St Amand for Souastre, to work Foncquevillers line, journeys at night.  
22nd Friday
Left Souastre for Foncquevillers.  Major Lloyd-Jones wounded at Foncquevillers, and died as soon as we reached 20 Cas Cle Sta (Casualty Clearing Station) S.W. back. 
25th Monday
Left Souastre at 11am o’clock for St Amand and had a fine day.  Lovely Xmas dinner and tea, and kept the night up well. 
31 Sunday
St Amand.  Fetched out of bed at 3am New Year’s morn to collect wounded at Bienvillers, as Germans had shelled the billets.