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129was always ahead of me.
It wasn't that the work was too much but I couldn't get ahead of it enough to look around.
Whilst at Bazentin I took the opportunity of looking round for my other brother but without success. Heard their Battn was camped at a place called Scotts redoubt near Fricourt.
We were not out of range of the German "heavies" here. One came over and discharged itself a matter of 200 yards from our hut. It lodged in a latrine blowing it to pieces.
Some of the Imperial artillery troops were quartered here and would, for a small sum, make a souvenir in the shape of a serviette ring from the driving face of a shell.
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