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4a lot of wounded.""did you lose any officers?""Any! O Good Lord! These blokes up here want to know, did we lose any! officers, Sam!""We lost the blooming lot, nearly:There was Mr Chadwick, he got killed the first going over.""Yes! And that other bloke, the best of the bunch: What was his name?""Manners!""Yes! Him, wounded that bad he died the next day.""That's true, and the Major, the pluckiest bloke in the Battalion, to give him his due, but a snorter at drill.""He gave me twenty four blasted days C.B. in Egypt.""Served you bloody well right!""Anyhow he had guts in the firing line.""Yes! A bloke don't mind following a chap like him."Thus in a babel, from many
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