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we left that field of slaughter & struggled back to Noreil [Noreuil] exhausted & glad to find ourselves still alive.   Out of a full battalion of over 1000 men we numbered about 154 men of the 20th, & that was about a fair average for every battalion in the second division.

It was a sad muster when we assembled at our quarters near Bapaume.   So many of the old familiar faces gone for ever, so many in hospital & so many reported missing which meant that they were dead in some lonely spot or in the hands of the enemy.

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