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August
Right throughout Germany the Government is calling every man & boy from the age of 18 and upwards for the army. There is a large number of new recruits here in this town of Luneburg. They are always marched around the town singing to try and cheer the population up a little. They are provided with songs every now & again, which they all have to learn to sing.
I have been constantly in receipt of both letters & Parcels of food these last two months.
August the 28th. Reports from the front say that the English and French have taken Bapume and Peronne again.
For the last month the German losses are 110,000 prisoners, taken by the English and French. The moral of the troops & civil population of Germany is beginning to weaken. The shortage of food and clothing and these late reverses have all to do with it. If we can only keep advancing as we have been doing this last month, I will be on my