7th October 1914

Found it more comfortable after scooping out some earth where the hips rest in the ground at night.  Weather bright and sunny.
An interesting argument as to the merits of the Bengal Cavalry as compared to the British. Lt Qm Dring gave me a new cap.
Extract from the Illustrated War News,  23rd Sept.  'So the German soldier sleeps his last sleep in the land which he invaded and his friends at home, if they hear ought of his fate at all, may receive back their letters to him marked in red with the one word, 'Gefallen'.