December 3, 1916
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Very cold weather, the ground being frozen hard. Had a very busy nigh tour chaps being caught in a barrage while changing over. Majority of cases were fairly severe. Had two cases of exceptional interest. In one man a nose cap of a shell was embedded in the flesh making a large cavity. The second was most gruesome. Whilst probing a wound the M.O. drew out some hair, and on persevering he found a piece of a man’s skull which had been blown into the man’s leg, being wounded in fact by this fragment of skull. Plenty of shells coming over, but so far none seriously close.