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144or else he would pick it up for a "souvenir". When he did this he would be very likely be killed easily – a percussion charge being laid under the hat.
We found here that the water was good. Most of the villages evacuated had had the water poisoned under orders from the German Higher Command. I had as I said comfortable quarters here, the troops in the line just the reverse. After the German attack it was my duty to go and ascertain from the platoon commanders the nature and number of casualties. I found them in a trench in the snow, some had secured very nice dugouts, others
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