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look up to see what insect it was there but nothing was there. Then some more but I d and it was some time before I realised that they were bullets not insects. Stretcher bearers keep passing us on the downward track bearing limp forms, some inert, others quite cheerful with perhaps a damaged leg or so. We have met many isolated soldiers looking for their battalions, and about a dozen of them have all stated that they are the same sole survivors of their respective battalions. But the worst 12th particularly I believe caught it very hot, and there can be no doubt that their achievement was a very fine one.
11.30 Up in the firing line. It has been a long way. Right up a long winding gully with steep hills on either side, with shells screaming overhead. Just as we left the beach, a shrapnel shell from somewhere on the right burst just above where we had been sitting, & there was a general scatter of the troops near. Right up the valley, past numerous stretcher bearers all bringing burdens to the rear. Somehow I don't feel ve scared