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had got over it. It was a steep embankment quite 10 feet high but the tanks went straight at it. Then we got the word "advance", and scrambled up the bank and over. Fritz had started to bombard along the railway. After getting over we spread out, and I put in my best licks and got well ahead of it and I kept well ahead. I heard a cry of "stretcher bearer", and looking behind saw some in the barrage one was killed and some wounded.
An odd shell burst close, but I manged to dodge them I was on the extreme right and felt sort of lonely. On the right we encountered no Fritz's but they were striking a few on the left. It was fine to see the advance 4 oclock in the evening, and in bright sunshine. There was a tank just on our left, and it used to fire with its little guns into the village and I ll bet it put the wind up any fritzs who were posted there. A tall building was in the centre of the town, flying the red cross its top story commanded a fine view, so in case anyone was using it for that purpose, the tank put a shell into the window ever so nicely and then it paraded down the main street of the village.
For my part I went with my section, on the right outskirt of the village & past a lot of thick hedges and banks, which would have boded ill for us had any Fritzs been concealed there.
Once a machine gun spit bullets into a bank as we went by it then I went through a portion of the street in a building. I saw where a gas mask dump had been set on fire. Out of the street along the road, on the road were two pigs feeding on a dead horse oh! if I could have only got them back to the cookers I would have shot them there and then. A bit further on was a dead Fritz lying in the roadway. Then we went up a rise by some dug outs empty though. From here one could