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job, but was coming down to the Somme with us, & so ended a most enjoyable evening, the Jock was a brother in law of Laidlaw the VC, who played the bag pipes along the parapet during a charge at the battle of Loos in 1916. & Jock played us the same tune "Flora McDonalds lament."
It has been a lovely day & we have been doing a little drill, & in the morning a short march with full packs up
Out of the 5 German planes that came over yesterday our chaps got no fewer than 3 altogether
There was a bit of fun also down at Reninhelst last night with our chaps & the Chows. It appears that Montieth was talking to one of them when the Chow must have

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