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3.  hundred yards up the road, from where we were working, sorting & loading bombs.  the Germans landed several shells on one of the billets where the 9th were camped.  They killed twenty-two & wounded forty.  The poor beggars were running all over the place.  All around where we are, there are sign-boards stuck up, warning us not to interfere with the ground in those localities, as there are unexploded German shells there.  Mr Boileau is to be my officer so I will be O.K.  He is a fine chap.  We do not do much here as a body of men are not allowed outside the billet at day time, owing to Taubes.  If any-one has to go out, they go in couples & carry their rifles.  We went on a tour this morning, about twenty of us, with Mr Boileau.  One of the towns we went through, a fairly big one, with some fine big private buildings hadn't a sound building in it.  Very few people have remained

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