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sleepers & several of us made ourselves a shelter & I laid down underneath them, I could hear the shells bursting all night, every time one burst I expected a bit of them anyhow I slept in between each shell until daylight. Then I took my kit back to the Tent, after Breakfast we were lined up & told off in two parties to dig two Dugouts for shelter, after the previous nights experience all hands were only too pleased to make some shelter & we worked with a Will under Two Sergeant Majors & by tea time our Dug Out was safe & shell proof. We dug a trench about 30 ft long by 4 ft deep & made it half round & we put 5 rows of Sand Bags on Tops of the bank of sleepers across the bags, we filled in earth on top for about 3 ft high & banked it around & covered it over with leaves & inside we put up sleeper supports to strengthen it also sleepers on the floor. I made up my mind if Fritz was troublesome I would sleep in the Dug Out although he had been sending over shells on & off all day they were not in our direction, I was booked to go out to the end of the line on a special