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trenches a blanket would be slung on to it at once, its wonderful how it will smother a bomb they are practically harmless under the blanket, one day in the trenches a chap saved his life by his presence of mind he was carrying a sandbag & a bomb lobbed right at his feet, he dropped the bag on it at once & just in time for off she went & never touched him, the best plan is if there is no cover to throw yourself flat on the ground for they all strike upward milk-dished shape. That same night as we left the trenches, we camped in Whites Gully" for about 4 hours waiting for the ship to come in to take us away for our spell, we were a nice looking crowd, I had no seat in my pants
half of an felt hat, no sleeves in our my tunic no socks on, old worn boots & filthy underwear rotten with vermin Len had an old helmet that you would not pick out of the gutter in ordinary times short pants with about 6 in of leg in them a tattered tunic & old boots, this was practically the same with every man of the whole Brigade, & every man from the Brigadier down would be lousy as could be, "oh we were a nice looking lot of heroes", but we had been through something that not every man had besides a lot of us had been there from the start 25th April to 9 Sept & going for our lives the whole time. It was the old 1st Division that made Australia's name. & done the severe fighting, & dug all the