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225There was running races and tug-o-war. Some of the men also dressed up in finery parading round the ring. There was an exhibit of Charlie Chaplin as well.
We spent a happy afternoon together, marching back through Laviéville a place where the 1st Battn was quartered.
We attended moral lectures at another little village where the building was a huge place used at ordinary times for billeting the troops. The whole village was built in a hollow.
One day we went to a specially prepared range, fitted out with targets at different ranges representing enemy masses &c.
The procedure was to give distance, we would then adjust to same and fire. We would
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