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on Gas Helmets & keep them on for a long time as he was shelling all round our position & others. Handguard wood was in front full of Huns about 300 yards off we could see them moving about during the day & it had been raining a lot, fine drizzling rain which soon made our new trench sloppy & as it was a narrow one we had to stand all the time.
I began to feel crook & was shivering with the wet & cold as it was now April & as we got orders to leave our overcoats behind, we only had waterproof capes to keep out the wind & rain & I started to vomit & to feel dead crook so at night the officer told me I had better see the doctor so went out as soon as I could get away at dusk.
one of the Huns had several shots at me with a rifle as I left the trench to go back to the old one but he never hit me so I got back to Company Headquarters & from there we picked up a wire that was pegged down & by letting it pass through your Hand we were guided down to Batt. Head Quarters where I saw the Battalion doctor who examined me & as I had trench feet & Trench fever I was evacuated to no 7 field Ambulance where they washed my feet & wrapped them in big cotton wool bandages & towards morning we were carried to an ambulance & taken to Amiens & passed through the Clearing station where we got some welcome Hot coffee & Bread & Butter then in another ambulance to the Ambulance Train & went to no 12 Hospital at Rouen where I was three weeks in bed with high Temperatures &