Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 85
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while every dark object or dead man was regarded with suspicion, as Fritz was up to all sorts of ruses to take prisoners. Here & there we gave them a dig in the ribs with the muzzle of the Rifle but they were beyond recall.
The next day we were asleep in our dugouts when one of our 18 pounders started to drop short and dropped 3 shells right in our trench. The first did no damage the second blew in Corpl Wells dugout wounding him in the lower part of the leg. The third landed right on the Vickers machine Gun position, but except for blowing a few sand bags away no damage was done.
That night I did some more running and the next day we pulled out to "Rose French", the Support line for that particular sector. That night I was on ration fatigue to "Needle Dump." where we got into a