November 20th
With 6 men less than we had the day before, we faced our first German attack for over a week, in which time there had been two unsuccessful English attacks. They came at us early in the morning, hoping to catch us unaware, but we were awake, and we saw them coming. We went to the artillery trenches through the saps and started firing our cannons and snipers shooting from the firestep and the parapet. The Germans didn't stand a chance because there weren't many of them and we were bombarding them with artillery fire. We forced them into a hasty retreat and survived to fight another day.
