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have the good fortune to use them –

We go out on Outpost Duty once (24 hrs) in eight days but owing to our present shortage of officers, on account of sickness etc, some of us have been going out every four days – (Two platoons per day)

I hardly know my old platoon now – with some twenty-five to thirty new reinforcements: only twenty-five of the old hands left. Another of my old chaps has died of wounds – His name was Pat Clements – I had to warn him very often, not to expose himself un-necessarily – time and again he did it. When warned his reply – always the same – was, "The

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