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beat both in body & spirit, we stopped a lot of them & tried to get some idea of how things were going but they could tell us very little I have my doubts if a lot of them had been near the firing line at all, by the silly yarns they told, after breakfast we "fell in" & marched away up through the deserted streets of what had once been a thriving & busy little village (Borre), here we dumped our packs in a big house & threaded our way through the horses waggons limbers & etc. which were rushing up & down the road, when we got outside the village the platoons got into "Artillery formation" for we were gradually coming under long range shell fire & we wanted as few casualities as possible yet a while

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