Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 250
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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