Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 141

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successful in doing so. Hewish "[indecipherable]" on me.

I remember this morning as being very misty. Suddenly, as I was sitting writing at a table, a runner put his head down the stairs of the dug out shouting out "Capt Hewish, Capt Hewish" the Germans are coming "in on us". The OC immediately sprung upstairs taking a couple of bombs with him, and calling on us to line the banks of the quarry and prepare to meet the Germans as they came through the mist.

Be it stated to the credit of the men the[y] sprang out right away – one or two stopped back inside, afterwards saying they had slept through the noise.

However, as far as it went

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