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the ordinary were happening.
2nd. Last night I was on a different working party" 3 of us had 40 men earthing up one of the avenue's leading to the 4th Battalion, it was a fairly dangerous job, for every now & again a couple of German machine guns would sweep the ground we were working on from end & end, at the first crack of the bullets you should see the boy's duck, & I can tell you I was never far behind we would all lay flat on our stomachs & as quiet as a mouse, you cant help laughing when you look up & see all the silent form's, like a lot of Moslems at prayer. One chap dug a little shallow hole in the earth enough to protect his head & body, & when the machine guns started to play he

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