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were a treat to watch: I had a close shave from a holiday wound, a bit of shrapnel from a shell fired at the aero's fell only a couple of inches from my hand: packed up & marched off to the engineers dump: dropped our packs & went back to Tramway avenue on engineers fatigue. The sap is not banked up yet & the rifle & machine gun bullets chipped through the netting & we had to keep low: we were making dugouts out in the open & plenty of "canaries" were kicking around: it was solid work after going all day: I caused a stir in our "party" during the day with my French study
Wednesday May 3rd
We knocked off about 2 am & got to bed in our billet about 3 am: up at 8 am for breakfast: dug a couple of "pot holes" & had a good laugh when the pioneer chap told us his tale of "woe": married one month when his wifes old lover came on the scene: etc:etc:etc: now she's married again & has been had up for bigamy: had some chocolates in morning: dinner: after tea had a read & then bed:
Thursday May 4th
up at 8 am: breakfast: Bert & I had some good cafe & biscuits & had a chat with Dare & a few more of the old "boys" of the 8th : dinner: lecture on attacks etc that had been successfully carried out: It appears that this was where the Tommies got too friendly with the Fritz's & had to be shifted: They used to exchange rations etc & actually played a game of football between the trenches: Fritz has a different opinion of us & in the message he sent over to the 7th Bgde attached to a bomb with the fuse extracted he said: he did not mind fighting men but objected to fighting thieves etc: to quote the exact words:- we sons of kultur do