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have not been able to silence him." "Well try and locate him definitely next time he fires, Sergeant, and I will get the Stokes Mortar people on to him". "Very good, Sir". As we are talking a figure could be seen wallowing xx along in the snow from the direction of No.4 post. On scrambling in he explained that they had seen us come to No.3 and the Sergeant had sent him over to report that a man in his post was in a fit and had been in that condition since 4 o'clock in the afternoon! He asked for instruct- ions. Beyond recalling that you should put something in the man's mouth to keep him from biting and that you rub their hands vigorously none of us knew quite what was the correct treatment for fits. As the messenger explained that they had tried both these remedies without effect I decided to go over and have a look at him. A bit of an old sap ran part of the way to No.4 and although full up with ice, the old parapet still stood up about 2 feet so that by crawling along the ice we did not expose much of ourselves andx beyond a few shots from a sniper who seemed exceedingly close we were left alone until when just as we had to expose ourselves rather much in crawling over the parados into the post,a machine gun fired a couple of bursts at us without effect. The man in the fit still shewed no signs of coming round despite the fact that one man was assiduously pushing an entrenching tool handle down his throat and another was smacking him vigorous blows on the palm of the hands. After consulting with the Sergeant it was decided that he must be got xxx back to the Aid Post in the rear and that two men should go with him, one to crawl with the patient on his back and the other to crawl along side and hold him on as the man was quite helpless and limp. So as to avoid as far as possible the risk of them being shot on the way back I sent my