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Hard solid drilling & fixing up our equipment for France. To give an idea of the thoroughness of British Army methods we were furnished a few weeks before our departure with special strong boots for the campaign. We wore them for a week to break them in & have defects corrected, for on the march feet are more important than stomach. A man can survive the loss of a few meals but if his feet are such that every step is an agony he can't possibly last for fighting purposes. At the end of the week's breaking in we had to label our boots & hand them in to the
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