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[31st July contd]
about the place he started again & we hopped into a soft dirt trench near by. Quite a few lobbed very close – and then over came one that burst I thought right on top of us. The concussion knocked me silly. I got a head full of noises & something came crash on tin hat which didn't help. Harold Lees & Chas Hamblin near me were a bit shaken but not hurt much & Chas assisted me this the trench to a German dugout a few hundred yds away & in an hour or so I felt better but shaken up. At 5 pm we were relieved by 11 Fld amb & proceeded to Gooseberry Farm. The boys found room on an Ambulance there for me & proceeded to Kandahar Farm on same
(We could hear the guns of Fritz rattling & assumed a counter attack was in the air) [added later]
narrowly escaping a couple of naval shells which Fritz wheeled across at 200 miles an hour. Then the rain began & it simply poured down, but didn't damp our ardor as at Kandahar we found three horse ambulances awaiting to take us back to Revelsberg as if we were returning from a football match. A hot meal on return & I went to bed.
Wednesday 1st August
It rained & rained all night & I pitied the chaps still up there in trenches among them being about 10 of our own chaps who could not be relieved yet. On awaking I didn't feel too