Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 326
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France
30/7/16
Dear Nell,
We have had a rather strenuous time since I wrote to you last, & have had my first real encounter with Fritz. Am pleased to say that we dished him up properly, & they say that we carried things off successfully. It was very hot while it lasted, but the other chap found it equally as warm, if not warmer. Fortunately I got off without a scratch, but at present am very dopy, as we had four, or five days without a wink of sleep. Just before we came out, sixteen of us took a long stretch of trenches, all on our giddy own with our little pet the bomb. We got nothing from Fritz but "Mercy Komerade" ten minutes after we started, but he got very little of that. Talk about sport Nell, why duck shooting wasn't in it. When he began to run, & got out of the range of our bombs, we all got up on his parapet, & commenced sniping them off with our rifles. Our machine guns got to work, & cut