Part 02: Dene Barrett Fry letters, 17th May 1915-16 April 1917 - Page 177
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[Page 177]
France
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My Dear Father
Well, we are preparing to go into the line again, after quite a decent rest. But big things have been doing while we have been out, and we have a much longer march "in" now than before. I wish I could tell you of our doings, but we are of course, strictly forbidden. But I have been right in the thick of it, £ have been helping to dig £ hold our new front line. We had a hard time when the hun first fell back. We were taking no risk of a trap, £ followed warily. I will never forget one night, with the hun just a few hundred yards in front of us, behind a veritable wall of barbed coire, we went forward in little parties £ formed a series of strong posts, digging like mad to get a bit of cover. We dug a few yards of trench about