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the railway line where we had to advance. A cheerful sight indeed to hear those thunderous crashes from your path to be, in a few minutes, with great black clouds arising. For if a nine point gets his eyes on you Its Ne plus (napoo) toodloo goodbyee, (trench ditty). Then we began to advance in sections, with those great black clouds bursting around and the ziezz of them, as they flew around; if just one landed close enough our section would be ne plus (napoo). Anyhow after about a half a kilo or more we reached a small hill, round which an old and very deep C, T, wound. We followed this along for quite a while, though some big shells crashed around it, and blew up some of his old dugouts near by. In some quarries in the hill side were some newly captured Fritzs, contentedly smokeing their pipes, with big china bowls with painted figures on them. Some 3rd divvy men were comeing back with Blighties. We waited here at a bend in the trenches and our batt pioneers brought the stew along. We camped then and lay down and slept until 2 oclock at night, when we moved on again along the trench for about ½ a mile or so, then we got out and walked along to a place they said was battalion headquarters, here the rum issue was served out and we lay down on the ground and waited. An odd machine gun bullet zipped around, it was chilly too. Then we got up and followed a sunken road to the top of a rise to wait once more while the other batt's of the Brigade got a start on. On the right down in the valley one could see the gleaming water in the river and swamps of the