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the line. On returning from fatigue one morning, I found that my Lewis Panniers that I had left on the parados were blown to bits, a whizzbang had lobbed on them and they were Ne Plus, I found bits of them 40 yards away my waterbottle was ruined for my equipment was lying near, and I had cut No 1 on my rifle which was some distance away he had this place to a nicety and used to shell it now and then, when a bombardment is on it's, "no bon", for one feels just like a mouse when a dog is scratching him out of his burrow, and all one can do is to dodge up and down the bays to places where they don't appear to fall much. The Hangars which were standing before, were now flat, and we used to use the iron of them to make possies a piece being cut out near the trench in the form of a square with a passage a few feet long leading to the trench this is roofed over, and then dirt is chopped out and piled on top a few inches thick, to stop flying pieces. We left Diggers support and went further up to the old German line, which was now a closer support. The old German trench was deeper than our line, and he had been constructing deep dugouts near the bottom of the trenches, which were stayed up by thick slabs of timber. He had not got the elaborate network of CT's and reserve trenches we had. About the old trench were lots of his equipment littered, such