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"planes" & dropped leaflets to the effect that we had no chance in the war & to throw up the sponge. What a nerve he had to drop the like of that amongst Australians, others were written in French but I was not lucky enough to get one for a souvener.
We, that is my Scotty mate & I left Youngstreet at 8 am Dec 17 for a place near Boulogne in a motor lorry. The weather was vey cold & we had over 80 kilos journey to cover before dark, & after nearly freezing we arrived at an unforsaken hole called Wirwignes near Boulogne nearly perished with the cold poor Jack the dog was with us, shivered himself to a sweat we unloaded the lorry in a snow storm & almost every swear word we knew we used & even invented some of our own. We had to make