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17 August 1915Tuesday
After a good nights sleep I have to send a sapping party of 24 men out at 6 am.4 more of my platoon go to hospital this morning.Not much doing that we hear of. A few shells come over but do no damage. xGo into trenches at 7 pmWe are making the trenches very safe & comfortable but hope that no rain comes yet.
1915 August 18Wednesday
do a bit more work to the parapets & then have a bit of a spell one man in six keeping watchWe keep hearing about the new Australian Bdes landing but nothing comes of of it.We are releived at the usual hour & have some tea.during the night it sprinkles a bit & we get slightly damp as we have no coats blankets or anyting to cover us at all
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