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All the Compane's nominal rolls were checked today, a healthy sign of coming battle.
Some of our platoons went for a bath today but they were sucked in for they had to have instead of the usual hot bath a cold shower & no change of clean clothing
This morning I had charge of our platoon for physical exercise, & tonight I am in charge of the billet guard, a very soft snap.
It has been drizzling rain all day & the roads & streets are very sloppy Its funny here to see the boys with champagne it costs 6 Francs a bottle as a rule (5/-) & they buy a lot of it, its like feeding pigs on strawberries, to see them guzzling the sparkling liquid down

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