Support trenches to the right Brigade near Malga Fassa on
the forward slopes of Mount Kaberlaba.
The weather remained cold and wet, with showers of rain,
sleet and snow, making conditions miserable. “All stores had to be brought up
the tracks, threading under the trees, either by pack mule or by human
porterage. The slushy snow, dreary dripping trees and the tiring meandering
paths brought it home to us that conditions in our new battleground were not
going to be exactly a picnic … shells bursting amidst the trees brought back
all the old sensations of going into the trenches in France, and we felt particularly
exposed on the hillsides, where there was no trench cover”. Views were often
blotted out by driving rain and on occasion there would be a steady bombardment
with shells passing overhead.
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