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[Page 18]
I haven't got very much extra news to tell you about our doings – when I last wrote we had gone to rest and were detailed to instruct the 2nd Army in gunnery and battery work, a very comfortable job I may mention, with warm billets and so on – also I was to go on leave.
And now – alas!
We once more have been sent to the big battle, and shall be in action once more in 2 or 3 days, sitting in shell holes and living in some slight discomfort. What I mean to say is that whe we shall not be able to have six course dinners really well cooked.
The mud really is something that even surprises an Australian who has seen it consistantly for the last year – it is hard to get guns up, and you have to be careful they don't sink. In one place that I know of several mules and men carrying ammunition were drowned in a mud hole having lost the track at night, and got into a large shell hole, or crater or something of that sort.