For the rest of the day it was a matter of finding things to do, such as repairing the boards that kept men’s feet out of the water, emptying the toilet buckets and cleaning guns. Most men wrote letters home during the day.
As dusk approached, everyone knew this was a danger time, so stand-to was observed again.
As soon as it was dark, men were sent up into no-man’s land to lay mines, add barbed wire and so on. Some men were sent to lie in hollows close to the enemy trenches to overhear their plans. It was a very dangerous task.
