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[Follows on from page 255.]Battalions of our Boys hopped the bags with the Tommies the Balloons have gone up so things have gone ahead.We have not much shelter the country is like waves up & down the night we advanced just dug the gun in & it rained so had to sleep on the ground I got near a big log & rolled up in my waterproof sheet but you can sleep even with a wet shirt tail. It brings back happy memories when the children were babies. It gets very muddy & you get in a hell of a mess.It has been a bit quite to day had a wash & chatted my shirt had a change & washed it but only muddy water out of a shell hole water is very scarce here. Fritz has gone & poisoned all the water in wells in the villages He has gone through & most other water has to have Chloride in it a rotten taste even when its made into tea.Well George I have put you in another shoulder strap off a German Lieutenant also a disk off another dead Fritz.So I will ring off now there is a good stunt going on on our right just now. Fritzs played a good stick last night with his bombs & dropped them fairly close. one plane came down a fire & there was a great row when some of the
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