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and ends of units are scattered about. Am sorry to say some dont seem to make much of an effort to keep their men clean and tidy, especially when there is no good reason for being dirty, as the chaps in the trenches have. It looks rotten to see a man with his clothes hanging anyhow on him lounging about the streets.
Our chaps raided Fritz last night after a bombardment, with satisfactory results, tonight he started slinging the big stuff over, knocked off for a while and has just started again, the boys up in front are having a close time. Our own guns are replying now. I hear the raiding party report many dead in the German trenches so our guns must have caught them on the hop.
27th Shells lobbed very close to us this morning one right in the billet, its worse than being in the trenches