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Our battalion reorganised again, I was picked out for the "suicide club", viz machine gunners.
Fruges was a fairly big town, a couple of kilometres away, I often paid a visit to this place. Peasant women used to do a roaring trade with their wares; chocolates, fruits and all manner of stuff. We soon got accustomed to the French system of coinage.
We were not at this place "spelling" without a purpose! In conjunction with the other battalions of the 4th Division, we carried out make believe "hop-overs" and attacks supported by an imaginary artillery barrage.
I grew friendly with some fine French people at Lugy, I picked up their "lingo" rather well.
Large turnip, sweed, parsnip and other manners of vegetable were grown in large fields round about Lugy. But no fences lined these fields. All these farms used to were owned by people, who lived a good distance from them