Mercer papers, 9 December 1917-19 June 1919 / Harold Mercer - Page 37

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about four feet high, the immediate roof being massive tree trunks stretched across at, I suppose, about ground level, or at all events the level of the mounds of the ruins which are the nest of the pill box. Above there is an enormous superstructure of cement blocks, sandbags, some tree trunks more cement & more sand bags. A direct hit with a big shell might kill us from concussion, but our situation in the ground would probably save us.

An incident of the moving-in rather shook the calm which I find rather to my surprise possesses me. As we were moving up the duckboards in the communication trench, we were asked to stand aside by a M.O. to let

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