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75with wire mats with which to effect a passage over the wire and, covered with a bombardment, left our trenches and started for the German line. We had a big number of guns quartered round and the noise was something terrific especially when Fritz started to reply.
We had been hard at work piling sandbags and reinforcing the dugout and it was well for us that we did this as they were a great protection to us from the German grenades which were thrown across with the aid of rifles.
The raiders eventually came back, I think they were only away for a matter of 10 mints.
When we had time to get out and examine the front line
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