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Numerous tanks have been busted up around this place.
Bapaume is about 3 miles on the top of furthest ridge. Houses, Chimney Stacks & church-steeple open to the eye.
Shells passing over us both ways night & day but not many coming near us.
"Fritz" shells the knocked-out village of Flers to prevent us getting supplies of water from the wells there but we get all we want just the same.
I think we only do 3 days in supports here & one day in line.
It is heartbreaking in the mud here, after a short while you are absolutely caked from head to foot.
Fri. 3rd. Nov. 1916: -
Took over firing line from A Coy. about 4 A.M. this morning. "Fritz" is supposed to be from 500 to 800 yds from us, but we don't know where, neither does he know where we are – judging by the scarcity of "iron-rations" around our position & plenty on supports behind.
We are directly in front of the Bapaume Ridge – the town showing up between the trees & a little village in front of it to our right all intact though no doubt when "Fritz" gets shunted back he will knock that lot over. I think his main line is along the top ridge & the communication saps down the hillside lead to strong-posts where machine-guns