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Eighteen miles march between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., with an hour off of that for dinner, is not bad going without a man falling out save four with bad feet.ⁱⁱ

The battn has done quite well today and now here we are at the end of it snugly billeted in Fourdrinoy. The change has taken place and we are now fully established members of the 7th Div, having bid goodbye to the old 30th for good and all.

Our village is very tiny and slightly more dirty than usual but, as we are here for a spell, we’ll put the latter disqualification to rights before many days are past.

We officers have struck the best billet we have seen so far. We are in the school-master’s house, which is well-furnished and most comfortable, and we have a piano. Fancy the joy of it! A piano, music and we have not heard a tune for six weeks. It has acted upon us like a tonic. You can scarcely imagine what pleasure there can be in even such a shop-soiled tune as Tipperary when you haven’t heard a note of music for nearly two months.