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as soon as we reported in, the Coy rushed the position, it was then that Dene Fry was killed.

Fritz cleared out before we reached him. We eventually captured a nice little haul of prisoners in addition to machine guns. One party of six of our boys [indecipherable] captured about twenty Huns including three iron cross men – great [indecipherable] throwing their hands up when outnumbering us more than three to one. 14 Platoon captured about a Hun a man. We made two further advances since the charge but did not meet with any opposition. Fritz attached our [indecipherable] Coys a few nights ago but got knocked back leaving about 200 dead behind him.

Extract from L/Corp. Cleve Edmunds
Letter to his mother
Dated 16 April 1917.

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