Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 117

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noise and a sputter then the light. I can tell you it frightened me and I can easily understand the alarm amongst the other chaps.

Fortunately the discharge went off into the ground.

We had a raid whilst in the line.

A certain number of men were selected amongst the platoons and the objective was the German front line.

The raid was hardly a success. It rained rather heavily just before the men were timed to start.

Lieut Loveday and Lieut Keuenus were in charge of operations. The men reached the trench and gathered some information, they sent back one prisoner, and

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