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73ducked down behind some sandbags to escape. I fell quite flat in my desire to get out of the way. The sound goes through one so much, "Whizz-bang" almost together.
We also had an order to put on our equipment and proceed down to a sandbag wall in the rear of the front line. This was done so that we should be in line to be at the Germans at crater-snatching. I'll tell you what it means. Our men and the Germans were known to be tunnelling from each trench respectively and this meant whoever finished their work first would be able to effectively blow up the others front line of trenches.
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