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16 August 1916Wednesday
Janet's birthday!!! Out in the battlefield. Return to Casualty Corner at 7 a.m. breakfast(?) short rations Seek "possie" in dugout & rest all day. Dugout chats & billet chats wage war on my back. Can't sleep for guns continually bombarding overhead. Incident of boy dying at Casualty Corner wound in chest. Aeroplanes. Fritzy has 8 balloons & 3 taubes up. We have 20 odd & aeroplanes by day. Incident of boy dying at Casualty Corner. Poor lad so quickly he went out. stayed in dugout all night. Slept fairly well.
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