Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 125
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[Page 125]
Belgium
12.10.17
Dear Mother Father & Sister
I'm lying in bed after a hard day. We have been up here now for about 11 days & I have been more or less associated with 4 battles, right in the thick of it & some wonderful escaps have fallen to my lot Schrapnel, artillery & snipers, the latter are hot stuff & give me a cold shiver up the back, my diary which you will some time receive will give you all you could wish to know. My information secured on the field - in "No Mans Land" was of assistance in the last stunt & I was quietly congratulated by one of the highest officers in our Division, briefly I was thanked by the General himself, to get it was at some risk to myself. An officer & two men standing at my side were "sniped" within 5 seconds, gad! I carried the officer out of the danger zone & dressed his wound behind the first bit of cover - he was shot right thro the abdomen, I was examining a plan with him when it came, it makes a chap feel ill & sick.
Yesterday we moved up the line & dropped right into a bunch of heavy shells old Fritz was bombing our area, the idea you see is to bomb an area about an acre then to suddenly shift to another area its awfully clever work & intensely interesting to watch but to be within the area is