Item 03: Sydney B. Young war diary, 15 October 1916-14 April 1917 - Page 65

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[Page 65]

You can always see a minniwerfer shell coming. It weighs 100lbs and looks like a cigar
in the air. The trench mortars you can also see coming & they look like an apple on
a stick.
The trenches here have to be built up with sand bags as the ground is very watery and
any depth below 4? fills to that level with water. The trenches are all planked so that
after all it is pretty comfy. The 2 dugouts next to ours have been blown in by a shell, but
before we came

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