Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 31
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[Page 31]
up on top of one another, they never bothered about draining the trenches, so it is falling to our lot to put them in working order this morning I had 20 men from 4.30 till 11.30 taking up these duckboards & cleaning the muck out & then digging a small drain to carry the water underneath the boards, this makes a good job of it
The trenches are that close together that they sent a man back to the supports because he coughed to much & would give the position away he belongs to the "Lewis gun.
We had a few "Minnewerfers & "pip-squeaks" over this afternoon but they done no damage, though last night a pip-squeak wounded
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