Item 05: E. J. Martin diary, 3 February-2 May 1917 - Page 55
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[Page 55]
Major Poole warned us to be ready in battle order & to rest with our boots on. At dawn when word came through that all was clear the Sergeant Major came to each dug out saying: "All right boys, take off your boots & go to bed again."
Bed! Great Caesar, a trickle of rain water was running over my water proof sheet & gently insinuating itself into my blanket, so I crouched further into the damp clay side of our "grave" & fitfully dozed off again. We were expecting to go over any day now. On April 14 my platoon Sergeant Sharpe came to me &
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