Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 150

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Another find was a Klufs. German steel is well tempered and an article of this description well prized by the finder. In the Head Quarters dugout was a German stove. We thought this might be a trap and for a time would have nothing to do with it.

You can rest assured this class of order was obeyed by the Australians.

There were not many guns round these parts due in our case to difficulty of getting same over the mud. The Germans had left a few and the morning of the attack they let us have a fair supply. One great advantage we had was to build a fire. This compensated for a lot of the discomfort we were otherwise faced with. Fire is

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