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117newspapers was one of our chief interests in the life of the trenches. The orderly room clerk was a man of some importance amongst the other men owing to the fact that he had the distribution of the mail to do and the handling of parcels.
I had my old job of sanitary picquet her. This enabled me to stop round the trenches. One night I was detailed off to shovel the mud out of a trench along with another party of men.
We set off just at dusk I remember and had a walk of about 2½ miles in front of us. Part of the way was over duckboards and it wasn't hard. We picked up our picks and shovels on the
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