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157made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would permit.
We collected firewood and made a fire upon which we, with the aid of a bit of dripping tried to fry a piece of the issue biscuit. I soaked it for quite a time but did not make much impression and eventually ate it half raw.
We made ourselves comfortable and as there was plenty of soft material on the floor we made ourselves quite a nice bed. Whilst here I had word that my brother Syd who was a member of the 56th Battn was wounded in the throat by a Machine Gun bullet during an attack which they were making on a village further away. He according to the Post Corporal was looking very pale and wore out sitting in a limber with his throat
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