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were not very far from us, but I don't think his location was positively known by our troops. Patrols were out searching for him and word was brought in by a Russian to the effect that he had stumbled across a German Machine Gun Nest on one of his journeys. This may have been true. The Germans, whilst they were on the retreat were in the habit of posting a Machine Gun and crew in addition to snippers to retard the advance of our troops.

Sharing our dugout was an officer of the Brigade Machine Guns. We were very congested here. The dugout had two entrances. The Germans, I suppose in providing for their safety thought that in the event of an entrance being blown in they would have the other to get

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