Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 168

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a biscuit or two of theirs but didn't like the taste in comparison with our own. I met Lieut Cormack an officer who came over in charge of our reinforcements from Sydney and he spoke to me for a short while.

We found an outpost from which the Germans fired their flares from. Whilst I was doing guard duty here some of our chaps came back bearing in their midst a German gun. It was as much as they could do to carry it along and I guess they were not sorry to drop it near by and take a rest.

I also was approached whilst here by a V.C. – Sergt Jack Hamilton, he had got lost and was wandering around trying to find his battalion

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