Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks - Page 417
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[Page 417]
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past that a few hours after dawn the smaller guns were out of range & came galloping down the road on which nothing living could move in the daytime for months past to new positions. Soon the road was a moving mass of traffic & through this prisoners & wounded wended their way back. Even the balloons began to move up & passed us telling that all was going well ahead. One balloon was very daring & seemed to hang right over his lines. He made it a bit too hot & came down in flames at the end of the day. In the evening we moved up to join the battalion where it had dug in & occupied two deep dugouts which looked like Fritz headquarters. We had to pull a dead Fritz out of the mouth of one in order to get in. Being just about tired out we slept pretty well that night notwithstanding the evil smelling dugouts & wandered round all next day souvenir hunting & amusing ourselves with Fritz verey