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200Mr Leslie, our officer came round and asked me if I would like some rum and then recollected that I didn't drink he pressed me no further.
We worked on till day light and when it became too late to work with safety we had a tolerable protection against Mr Sniper banked up.
Speaking of this bombardment some of the shells burst perilously close to our trenches – some of the splinters wounding, I heard the terrible roar of one of our heavies and thought it would explode right on top of us. It seemed to explode right behind us on the parades.
We began to get very thirsty. It was due to the fact that owing
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