I have no doubt the Germans have taken a good many guns south for the Verdun battle. I walked round the battery positions of the Corps group of Artillery today. The day was very warm & the cold weather seems to have gone for good. The following is the composition of my brigades. 59th Brigade Commanded by Brigadier General Shute 10th King's Royal Rifle Corps10th Rifle Brigade 11th King's Royal Rifle Corps11th Rifle Brigade 60th Brigade Brigadier General Roy 6th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 5th Shropshire Light Infantry 12th King's Royal Rifle Corps 12th Rifle Brigade 61st Brigade Brigadier General Sweney 7th Somerset Light Infantry 7 Duke of Cornwall's Light InfantryPioneer Battalion 11th Durham Light Infantry 7th Yorkshire Light Infantry 12th King's Liverpool