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The company in the salient (a horseshoe bend in the line) was being relieved when the bombardment started. It was the heaviest bombardment by the Germans I have ever seen. Even on the Somme the shelling though more prolonged was not so intense. The whole of the front line was a mass of fire and the noise was fearful.
There were just on two hundred casualties among the two companies and the Germans got into the trench. They got away with several prisoners and two Stokes mortars, a gun which was, we tried to keep secret. The 20th haven't recovered from that setback yet, and they are often met with the gibe – Who lost the trench mortars.
We "stood to" all that night and I had another narrow escape. I was fusing a box of bombs
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