September 16, 1916
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O.S. for the day and was kept fairly busy. Had a bad headache most of the day, one of my bad bilious ones. Drove the Ford up to the trenches at night and went up to the Advanced Dressing Station. At present we are situated in some ruins made habitable by means of sandbags about 600 yards from the German first line of trenches. Here the wounded are dressed and carried back to where the ambulance waits.
‘Tis a beautiful spot surrounded by trees, but could be blown out of existence with a couple of shells at any time. As it is a machine gun often rakes it with fire, but the sandbags are sufficient for them. The road is screened off at different places with hessian. Coming back we passed a lot of waggons taking up ammunition, quite a busy scene, and as no lights are allowed very careful driving is required in the dark.