Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 275
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[Page 275]
6.2.18
Flanders
My dear Florrie
Walked up the lines today & had quite a good time, old Fritz wasn't half so kind as yesterday, the day was quite clear. We enter the trenches about 1¾ miles from the front line, you know you can easily lose yourself in the trenches, they run this way & that way they form quite a maze. Here the sides have fallen in, there a shell has blown them in, here we go under a road there under a railway, here we go into a hollow, there we come on to a ridge & look right out into Fritzie country, here you have to keep your head down & so on. A working party was working contentedly on the surface, right in rear, suddenly old Fritz sends over a round of schrapnel, but that doesn't affect them much except for a general grab for gas helmets but over come shell after shell, we hear them asking for stretcher bearers, the report of the gun we hear before the shell reaches us & as we walk​​