our retirement from Flameries; every day our patrols have come in contact with them, & there is a daily skirmish towards evening. The infantry fire does not appear to be accurate, most of the shots going high. I believe it would pay us over & over again to reserve our fire until they came close, say up to 400 or 500 yards & then let them have it. I cannot understand why we have no aeroplanes with our force; the German aeroplanes are seen every day following our movements, & not a sign of ours to keep them off. Thousands of rounds have been fired by our infantry at them but without effect and we have all come to the conclusion that unless aeroplanes are flying low it is a waste of ammunition. 6 September 1914 Marched at 6am to [LANVIGNY - crossed out] LUMIGNY and went into billets at about 6pm. Received news that German Army Corps