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retreat. The British had mined and smashed the railway, during the retreat and fritz had never repaired it; there was a hole about 40 feet across and about 5 feet deep and the line in one place was thrown sleepers and all; right up side down, and in parts, the sleepers were standing up on end with the rails still attached to them looking very much like a post and rail fence. There were some Fritz dugouts, and huts here nearly all had been polluted in a filthy manner in fact the Fritz's all seemed to have been habitually filthy. Our airman had bombed one of his stables some months before, and the dead dried up carcasses of the horses were still there. We billeted in a little hut and went and got some straw that fritz had left behind and had a cosy sleep all night. We used to get the water for the cookers out of an old dugout that had struck water. Fritz shelled the small town on the right all night, though the ASC avoided it on that account. I dont know the name of the town though it was not far from Bray. Fritz also put a few shells around the gully but next morning, all his shelling had ceased he was retreating the 19th and 20th were following him, we being in reserve to them. About 10 A,M, we got orders to move up, so we got out up over the top of the gully. Near the top was one of our aeroplanes that had been brought down evidently quite a long while ago. We followed him all day, or rather