Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 238
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"Fritz nearly got her last night boys" says our Corporal, "There's a hell of a hole on the edge of the road only a few yards from her, they showed a high explosive over, just about twelve o clock"
"Do any harm", asks Morrison
Smashed up a 'cooker' and knocked a couple of wounded chaps who were coming down from the 'front'
"Killed?" asks Jim
"Yes, both, and buried now" replies the Corporal as he takes a dig at the butter; which by the way, was a luxury with us at the time.
"What battalion" enquires someone
"I don't know, there was an officer chap there early this morning. He took their discs, I think he belongs to the fifty second
'Whizz –z-z'
Ah there's Fritz again-"
'Bang-nra-a-ack'
"Not half a bad shot for a blithering German", growls Jim, as a great cloud of smoke bubbles out of the ground twenty yards