Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks - Page 279
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[Page 279]
He was one of our squad bearing in the last stunt which I will tell you of later & carried till he couldn't do any more - got a touch of pains & had to go back. He put up a great example & when writing I would like you to tell his mother what a great deal we think of him for it. Such things as this go unnoticed in the military. He could have had a job out of the trenches too but volunteered to come up with the boys.
Last time I wrote we were out resting but the day after we suddenly left & with full packs up started a long march. That day we did 20 miles arrived at a little village at 7 pm & billeted in a barn. Next morning off again got lost several times & eventually landed at another little village at 8 pm after having travelled 22 miles. Slept in some hay again & off the next morning early but only had about 6 miles to do & finished fresh. 50 miles was not a bad march with full packs up & most of our chaps did it. Many of the infantry were left along the roadside & our cars
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