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163It was snowing and a mantle of snow was on all the landscape.
After breakfast, I with some others, went and made an inspection of the village of Hermies which had been taken. We went along the road leading to the village from the direction of the sunken road where we were camped. The Germans had erected barbed wire entanglements or barricades along it.
At intervals along the banks were sniper's posts where the Germans had been installed to fire on our troops as they passed.
Down a trench running off the road was a dugout neatly made of board with a chimney and place for a fire. We found a partially smoked cigar and a German book. The occupants had made themselves very comf[ortable]
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