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along the road. Great heavy shells were falling on the road ahead but as I got there, he had lifted them, and they were flying just over into the river throughing up huge columns of water. For the road was along the sides of the Somme valley. At last I reached the dressing station and they bound up my wound again and inoculated me against tetanus. Outside they had a mob of prisoners to carry wounded back that could not walk. They gave me two to support me one on each side and I set out for the next dressing station. I was now terribly weak, and went along between the two with a terrible sag in my knees. As I went along I noticed a wounded man coming back with a hole in his cheek but hardly any blood lost apparently, lucky beggar, I thought, little did I think that I would see him ½ an hour later at the next D,S, dead. A car came down the road going to the D,S, I had just left. I still struggled on. On the ridge the rattle of rifle and machine gun fire could be heard and the sun was now shining for it was about 7 oclock. Some artillary came at a trot along the road following up to support the advance. The red cross car was comeing back. The artillerymen shouted pick the poor old digger up. So it stopped and put me on the seat besides the driver.
At the next D,S, I got on a car that was takeing wounded men back to D, A'ours C,C,S, Oh,! I thought if I can only reach the C,C,S, I'll have a chance, if I only can. The car bumped cruelly back the many miles to D'aours and the C,C,S, was crowded with wounded. At about 3 oclock in the evening, the American doctor started to give me a dose of forcible feeding as I had signified, that I was hungry and