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Got 2 more officers tonight we have no less than 10 now & they are a bright crowd believe me, my officer & Mr Beckett are the pick of the bunch
Have been playing marbles nearly all the evening, a couple more months & we shall all be fit inmates for the rat house
What a gutser Gough of the 5th Army has come, he made a pretty mess of things compared to Byng of the 3rd Army, both knew that the stunt was coming off & they adopted different methods of meeting it. Gough crowded all his men into the front line & when the blow fell he got them nearly all wiped out & had no reserves to carry on, consequently his Army suffered heavily & lost practically all their

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