12th Sept 1914

HARTNESS.  Sick transfered to base in motor lorries, including 9 wounded Germans.  March of at 11.20 am, very wet day.  NAMPTEUIL-sous-MURET, billeted in a room, rat ran over my faces I lay. Met an interesting case. Man blown bodily out of a trench without wounding - back bent double with shock but rapidly improving.