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of the kind like Bullecourt not for the moment although death was all round thinking that I myself might at anytime be numbered with the slain.

We were set to work digging the trench deeper.

Parts were very shallow and with the German snipers opposite ready at a moments notice to shoot, it is easy for anybody to see the necessity of the work. The time we started was 2 o'clock in the morning. There was an heavy bombardment going on all the time, but all fears were kept away by the work.

Pieces of shell were whizzing about us without however doing much damage.

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