Bell war diary, 16 December 1915 - 26 October 1916 / Roy Pinto Bell - Page 42

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near Albert.
The next day Keating Thomas Stroud and myself started off at 7.30 a.m. for the new position we were taking over from an English battery. We arrived here about 11a.m. and went from then till the following tea time with only one meal and no blankets, not forgetting the wet feet, which I managed in my case to keep warm by putting them both inside about four sandbags.

[Transcribed by June Pettit for the State Library of New South Wales]