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perfect &even horses in ploughs are used as a means of signalling. These cafes are reckoned to have spies in some of them: it is remarkable that some of them are never shelled Our guns round this billet made a lot of concussion replying to fritz's "coal boxes". One chap coming along the road had a miraculous escape. He was walking along the road when a shell burst close by: the concussion lifted him off his feet & landed him in a ditch at the side of the road: lectured about malingering
Wednesday April 26th
Revellie 8 am: glorious day: breakfast: had some cafe & biscuit, rest of morning writing: dinner: our artillery is giving Fritz beans & banging away a treat: we had to fall in for rifle inspection & then we had to go outside & lay down in little parties as they are frightened of our billet going: had a great argument with Tom, Alf, Lock & Bert on :- could all Australia be populated & cutivated on a payable basis: Beale & I said no: tea; Tom & I had a "eat up" & were amused at Mary's big feet & bigger boots:
Thursday April 27th
Revellie 6.30 am: breakfast: glorious day: fell in 8.45 am & marched to trenches: our Coy are reserve Coy & it seems good job: the dugouts are very nice & hold two: (with the feet dangling outside) Fritz gave us a welcome with coalboxes: Jim the cook got a shock & had to "cut it short": after "stand to" we went to Q.M. cottage on engineers fatigue & while therethe gas alarm was given & then we had to double back & stand to at our posts: The gas cloud could be seen rolling along when the flares were sent up & owing to the horse shoe