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hanging on to the Frenchie & by now we are out of range, but it is some time before we ^all get together again.  I discover here that I have lost my precious water bottle.  I have now ^only a water bag slung round the old mares neck but alas it contains hardly a teacupful of water.  I God only knows when I am to get more.  It is very hot & the dust helps to parch my mouth.  We ride on to another ridge when there comes the rattle of machine guns not far away in front & then ping-ping-ping as the bullets fly past & we are off at another gallop,  truly things are getting very interesting.  A little further on we see another batch of prisoners and these are ours, taken by the 15th Regt which has just been in action.  We cross the last ridge & descend on to a plain.  Far away in the distance I see the white homes of a large village, from

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