Item 05: E. J. Martin diary, 3 February-2 May 1917 - Page 87
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[Page 87]
hour & found the lads streaming home in hundreds. All the dug outs along the road were packed with fellows dodging the our men. Captain McDonald was there & told me to make my way past the village to our dug outs near the road "only a couple of miles to go", he said.
But fortune favors the brave, or the devil looks after his own. I pulled up at the Australian battery which had been captured by Fritz the previous morning & regained during our counter attack. They had hardly any room in their little hut but they made me welcome & put me on a box in front of their little
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