Item 07: Hector Brewer diary, 17 November-12 December 1918 - Page 55

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[Page 55]

up him I fancy. One night though  €“ (pauses and shifts pipe to other corner of his mouth) we sent a patrol out of about 12 men under an officer to investigate a machine gun post just in front and while they were coming back we Fritz got on to them and wiped out the of them."
Kin  €“ "Who was the officer in charge of the patrol"
Dicko  €“ "Brewer"  €“
Kin.  €“ "Did he get back all right"?
Dicko  €“ wiping his eyes with a silk handkerchief  €“ "No, he got stonkered."
Kin  €“ in a voice full of

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