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all that afternoon the boys kept straggling home one by one for some of them had to have a dozen spells before they could get round.
Needless to say we slept soundly that night, for we were away from the sound of the guns for the first time for many months, & we missed them but in the right way next morning we had a good breakfast & had the day to ourselves the first thing we done as you might guess was to have a good clean up wash & shave, there was no roll call that day, some of us washed our clothes over at the well, there was a bonzer spring there & we made full use of it, a day or two after this we were all issued with new
clothes, & felt like new men, the old lousy clothes were all burnt & we were clean once more.
I must now close this book at this stage, I will write the rest of my experiences in another one everything in this is absolutely true as far as I can remember there are no lies in it & anyone reading it can believe whats written.
It has been a task but I have stuck at it, & I am about full of it for a time, I hope all at home will find something of interest in it for them, for that is the reason why I wrote it. I must now finish, my next job will be to get it home safe. I don't like trusting it through the mail, but I must find some plan