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Apl 11 guns, roosters, bugs, mice, rats, a yelling kiddie & - "Kelly" –No bath parade today on a/c of a Div' inspection so we cleaned up the farm-yard; & it was some mucky too after rain. Have to carry gas helmets on a/c of aerial gas bombs. The mice are so numerous that they parade in platoons & companies, & even march in columns of route, but owing to lack of rafter- width they are exempted from forming fours.The big guns are beginning to speak to some purpose, guess the big bombardment has commenced in deadly earnest. Reckon id sooner be in a charge than under fire in a trench, specially if the big naval guns were at it.
12 Turned out at 6.30 this morning – full marching order – for inspection by General Walker, & by gee we did a freeze for an hour or so. They say this is Spring, but I reckon its more like midwinter. Not a bad
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