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Feb 22nd
After ten days fatigues we went to Albert and billeted in the town, only to be sent back to Bazentin, all in a hurry - Fritz was retiring, and we were to follow him - What excitement!
Feb 28th
We occupied the Huns old Front Line System - "Smithy" and I slept on a duckboard, and counting the shells - he was shelling us, as he retreated.
We buried dead men here. - Poor devils had been lying there for months, we worked for days and then had to hurry on leaving many unburied still - A gruesome job, but a duty.
Mar 2nd
We went forward at night throught the villages of Le Barque and Ligny Thilloy and took up the pursuit.
I had 6 men on a post right on the Albert-Bapaume road, about 1000 yards from Bapaume. - That morning under cover of a dense fog, the "Russian Guards" raided our positions and we