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123I found out that it was in reference to our Great Coats which had been left behind at Flers on account of their being too weighty in some instances through the mud that had adhered to them. In other instances someone had taken them. My version, which I believe true in regard to my own was that leaving it on the top of a dugout in "support" trenches in Flers, someone had taken it for their own use. I told the O.C. this and he crossed my name off the "Charge List". Whilst here I had the thought that I would do a little "self denial" that is save half my allowance and send it along to the Salvation Army at Albury N.S.W. Melbourne.
A coincidence was that I
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