Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 50
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to think if this was war, it was not too bad after all.
It was here that we had the pleasure of knowing "Parapet Joe", a German machine Gunner, supposed to be the cleverest Gunner of his day & woe betide anybody who had his head above the parapet when Joe opened up. I think the only other trouble was "mineweifers," or large trench mortor bombs, used by Fritz but they could be seen coming so we didn't mind them at all.
Our Dugouts were very comfortable, mostly cement; in fact the trenches themselves were high class, as Fritz had been such a long time without disturbing us that they had made them into a real home. Our only cobbers were the big rats that used to walk along the parapet in the moonlight looking for spare scraps of food that we might throw over that way.
It was about now that rumours began to get round that the Ausies were going down to the