Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 131
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rum Issue kept the boys together in Spirit, and made them sleep where sleep was utterly impossible under ordinary circumstances. It may be impossible to imagine boys going to sleep wrapped up in a wet overcoat and wet through to the skin, while the noise of the guns and shells bursting shook the heavens themselves, and sleeping in places where at any moment a shell might blow them to pieces, yet that is exactly what happened all the wet season and winter.
The next morning owing to 2 more Casualties on our stations up the line H.O. Thomas and myself were sent up once more to CHQ and MAB. respectively and once more I landed up on the same station as I had left the day before. Things had now quietened down a good deal but rations were still scarce, but we managed to keep going.
It was while here that I was standing outside the