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We reached Ypres an hour after. We disentrained here and made our way among the ruined buildings of Ypres again. We stayed here till nightfall.
Two or three of (B Coy) 50th Battalion had a narrow shave, a bomb buried in the ground, near which a fire was burning set the thing flying into fragments These chaps got a piece as a souvenir of the Great War (1914-1918)!
We left Ypres for the line again and after chequered experience with the mud etc, we did get there eventually. The distance must have been 8 miles. Luckily duckboards helped us a bit also Fritz's shells in the way of light!
We spent a hell of a night amidst the mud of our new homes, the trenches, What with shells of every calibre thrust upon us, gas and the discomfort of the eternal "chats", oh it was a life! Still here I am today, well out of it!
We had more casualties than the 26th Sept 1917 stunt. The gas was the worst. We spent ten days in this sector of the