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way out as far as they could see us going & even when we got into Sausage gully again shells were coming all the time & when we were going along near where a battery of 18 Pounders were firing one of the Huns shells hit right under the Gun & as the Gun fired so the shell struck under the gun & up went the lot & there were about 6 men near the gun.
I did not stop to see as we had to get out of the way as soon as we could, but I saw men from the other Guns running over so they would look after their mates & bind up their wounds & as the ambulances passed that way (Horse ambulances) they would soon be in comfort, not like the poor infantry man who has to be carried miles in narrow trenches before he gets attended to.
Motor Ambulances were working from the Casualty Clearing station at the end of Sausage gully taking them to Warloy where there was a Hospital also a large cemetry which I visited & there were hundreds of new graves, Huns & British troops buried in seperate parts, black wooden crosses on the Huns & white crosses on the British graves.
At last we got clear & reached a camp where tents had been pitched where we rested some days & did as we liked & then on the march back again towards Warloy where we only stayed one night & then the next place was a camp of Wooden Huts inside of a wood near Contay.
A wood is chosen because the trees hide the Huts & Troops from Enemy Aircraft. When in billets men are put on Guard to watch for the coming of enemy plains & have a pair of field Glasses also a whistle which on being blown all men are to take cover or not to move until three blasts gives the