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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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