March 17, 1918
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St. Patrick’s Day. The last week much has happened. First the two nursing Sgts. arrived back from leave and I handed the Hospital over to them and then before I could dig into the Dispensary the Colonel got me to take charge of the riveting work round the huts. He was awfully keen on getting it done and gave me about 50 men, batmen being made to work and the Hospital staff was also cut down. One afternoon 4 of the officers slogged in with the lads.
If the weather keeps good we will complete in a week what was being done at the rate of being finished in 6 months. Two balloons of Fritz’s have come over in the last few days, one voluntarily, the other not. The first named was a hot air affair which came over laden with newspapers,The Ardennes Gazette containing matter of a propaganda nature. We had some of them in the camp, but orders have come out that all must be handed over to G.H.Q.
The other balloon was a Sausage and had apparently broken loose as it drifted over our lines. Two of our planes set it on fire and it commenced to fall rapidly. The flames soon went out, however, quite a lot of it being left and this when it reached the ground was soon torn to shreds by the Australians who rushed it for souvenirs.