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platform which can be elevated. When the gun is to be fired the platform is raised & the muzzle of the gun just peeps out over the top. A few [indecipherable] rounds are fired & the gun lowered. If the gun were not fired whilst you were in the immediate vicinity, you would never know it was there
All along the road which runs through here big screens have to be put up to stop the view of the enemy who occupies a position on a ridge of hills opposite, & when ever in this particular place it does not do to linger, as one never knows when they will rake the road with machine gun fire. It was here that I unconsciously wandered in the open & only escaped by flinging myself flat in a drain & crawling out of sight. Lots of chaps are going to Hospital with various complaints, caused no doubt by the very wet weather.
19.10.16 Thursday
Several things of importance occurred today which I will recount. To begin with it rained hard all day & was very cold. Whilst at dinner 1 pm we were all notified that there was to be a general Parade for all hands at 1.30 pm. We fell in on Parade & were marched to an adjacent paddock where another company of the train was drawn up. We were placed with our left flank on them & the remainder formed in a square. A significant thing I noticed immediately was that all the officers were on Parade. The whole thing in