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was still cold & I had no blanket; only my heavy overcoat. However I got hold of an old horrible blanket & was about to doze off when our bombardment of the German position commenced. It was a holy terror. I believe six hundred guns were used; the guns flamed & roared for miles. Nothing, we thought, could live under such a fire & yet the eight waves of Australian troops who were lying down waiting for the barrage to lift so that they could storm the German position, found that Fritz & his machine guns were ready as quick as the opportunity presented itself. Some of our men asserted that a lot of the division were killed by
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