Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 269
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Somewhere
France
7/5/16
Dear Nell,
The mail is not so frequent now, only once a fortnight. I am now, right in the firing line, & experiencing the real thing. So far I have escaped everything that Fritz has sent across, & he surely sends some over now & then. When he becomes a little over the odds I retire, (as others) into my Little Dug-out in the Trench. There is no doubt about it, this is the life, at least, I have found it so up to the present. We are at about the quietest spot in the line. Of course I cannot say where we are, but we're here, & all alive-o. My work is mostly centred in bomb work, & I find it very interesting. So far I have not fired a single shot out of my rifle as I have sworn that I will not dirty a good barrel without a good mark to shoot at. Strange as it may seem to you, I have not yet seen a sign of a German, although I patiently waited for the best part of an hour, at one of the loop holes, for a chap at