Item 03: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 1917-February 1919 - Page 35

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There was a beautiful harvest moon showing and the nights were lovely. We had one disadvantage from this however – It showed the landscape up so clearly and "Mr. Fritz" was very active in this time with air raids.

Indeed we were all gathered together in the Y.M.C.A. but when we heard the wank-wank wank of exploding shells or rather bombs, making us put out the light very suddenly a light in a tent is a grand target for a bomb to be aimed at

The cooks at this time were supplying a superior class of food to that usually served. They had been sent for a course of instruction to the Divisional schools, where they

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