June 24th 1915

Inspections in the morning. Two hours route march in the afternoon and parade at 7.15pm for digging – marched out through Ypres and worked on a communication trench; arrived back in camp about 3.30am. What a state Ypres is in. An earthquake couldn’t have made a greater mess of it; houses reduced to heaps of bricks, big shell holes and heaps of rubbish in the streets.