Wednesday 1st December 1915: The 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment are presently in the front line near Hannescamps on the Somme. The
Commanding Officer tells us that conditions are bad because of the snowy weather.
They occupy Trenches 56 to 61 inclusive and on a tour of the trenches the CO
noted that Trenches 59 and Trench 60 are in a particularly bad state. They are
knee deep in mud and the sides of the trenches continually fall in as there has
been a sudden thaw and all the snow has melted. The communication trench behind
Trenches 56 and 57 is also deep in sticky mud
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