Monday 8th November 1915

Front line trenches near Fauquissart.

Another quiet day, with the weather remaining fine but cold. The War Diary reported that for the last two days it had remained, “very quiet, except for machine guns which traversed the parapet”. Lt. Dick Bolton (see 21^st October) later recalled this sector in similar terms; he remembered it as being, “comparatively quiet, though the Germans amused themselves by ripping the sandbags on the top of our parapet with machine gun fire at night, after calling out in English to induce our people to raise their heads”.