Item 03: Sydney B. Young war diary, 15 October 1916-14 April 1917 - Page 72

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[Page 72]

away, even to the searching of the body for identity discs, paybook, and personal
effects.

          
We spend a considerable amount of time telling one another of the narrow escapes we
have had during the day "Old man" had one to-day & was within an ace of being
blown up.
The Germans method of making barbed wire entanglements is to strew the ground with
the barbed wire and throw hand grenades in amongst it repairing any breaks at night
time.

There is a sniper post not far from us from which a machine gun is used with

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