Item 03: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 1917-February 1919 - Page 5

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to a hole and the contents spilt into it.

There was an accident happened one afternoon on the bombing field Some of No 6 platoon were practising bomb throwing One of the bombs was detonated A chap threw along his bomb and called (private) "pin out" It exploded and wounded about six soldiers who were taken away in the motor ambulance

We had a mile and a half race too. The event attracted a lot of attention I was among them we started out gaily I didn't go the full distance.

One of our chief pleasures was to receive letters from home and to answer same. Although I received such a lot yet I can recall the fact that I never missed answering any.

We didn't stop

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