Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 198

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I put on a German coat, coming round the corner of the trench I found some of our chaps. I said to them "Mercy Kamerade", and they were going to attack me, I didn't try it again.

We were very thirsty and whilst it rained that night we in our endeavour to get some drinking water put out our waterproof sheets obtaining a little in this way.

Some of the chaps also foraged amongst the dugouts and found some German water-bottles, filled with cold coffee – they as a rule prefer coffee to water owing to the scares amongst the men as the result of many traps

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