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I have reproduced a rough sketch of the outposts a difficult thing to do. One could see his barb wire and trenches out in front, his barb is rolled and then pulled out. ours is made into double apron fences, where practicable. From here we went into our old front line and Diggers supports for a few days 4 I think. The transport had bridged the trenches and used to supply the barb and corkscrew stakes up to the old german line at night. One night our transport came up a little early just before dusk and he put over a couple of, "Woolly bears", and then some H,E. One of the horses was killed and we had to go out and bury it not a hard job, I don't think, we rooted out a shell hole against him, and then got his feet and turned him over into it and shovelled him under. Of course he was only 6 inches underneath, but out of sight, out of mind, "sometimes". My; the vickers used to rattle now, two American guns in, and new hands on who are never satisfied till they hear her rattle. Vickers guns are generally in support trenches, and trained onto roads etc. at long range on which they squirt a few bullets now and then, at night, on the hope of catching something going along it. They weigh 80 pounds I think and are water cooled. One evening, as I went down to the cookers on a fatigue a Fritz plane got 4 of our balloons one after