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not quite right in the head and went across No Man's Land and back again in full view of the Huns. He paid the penalty, poor dead, for he was one of the first to go.
I went out to this position every night with rations and as soon as I got there the shelling would start.
On August 3rd I received instructions for the attack on the following night. Our company was in the front line but I was not with them being a kind of general useful doing guide work and patrols. On August 4th I received orders to take over when we had to get over the top in order to line out for the stunt. We had no sooner got over when the barrage started and off we went. I only got about a hundred fifty yards (we had to go two fifty when I was hit. I dived for a shell hole and bandaged myself