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handling throwing these delicacies.
The Infantry are wonderful in their callousness of casualties & generally will brave anything. The little parties of 20 or 50 that sometimes run or creep out, according to the job are heroes. The N.Z. Engineers are fine chaps; work quietly away – sometimes going out to blow up enemy earthworks, some times being carried down the hill themselves.
The hills are now much better since the Armistice I wrote of – they are not covered in dead & one can breathe better. Still there are signs of insufficiently covered bodies above our heads, here & there where they were only covered with soil thrown out by accident & not buried.
No advance has been made since we were here a fortnight ago, except a few yds of pushing closer together. I have the post well organised now – I wish I cld. send you interesting sketches: bomb throwing & parafin oil flare throwing specialists sitting by their wares – sniping pits – observation pits etc.
My dug-out is not where it used to be – its now moved up where the battles take place – the telephone – with three on duty always, is at my head – 3 ft away. The regt. being smaller is