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O gumboots, what reputations have you not jeopardised, what hairs brought down with sorrow to the Base! The Battalion was divided before it left Rainecourt, orders being given for C and D Companies to move forward to Herleville and occupy some huts and dug-outs there. It is morning of February 22, 1917.
Training for offensive action. By rail to Marcelçave. Billets at Rainecourt. Reconnoitring the French line near Deniécourt. I cannot often treat my readers to a ride by motor car. Jump into this staff car that is waiting it will not take you to the trenches! You will have distinguished company. Colonel A. and Major Q. have decided to pay a visit to the Battalion.
Much good work was done, but I believe the logs were never used. On the next day German aeroplanes saw the Battalion parade at X 17 c 3. 8. and march to its old billets at Rainecourt. Never was the old song 'Here we are again' more heartily rendered. Meanwhile Divisional Headquarters advanced and seized a colony of dug-outs at Vermandovillers.
It had lain some 3-1/2 miles behind the old Somme front and had suffered a good deal from German shells. French industry and French materials had, since the advance, converted damaged barns and houses into quite good billets. Several days were spent in Rainecourt in rather dismal weather, for the prolonged frost had broken and mist and mud followed.
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