It I seo smoke rising from 9 chimney I know they are cooking the dinners. I saw one such place and shelled it so heavily that they have never cooked there Then T noticed the officers' were taken to the trenches at a particular time, I knew that if fired a few minutes afterwards I would find them unprepared. Then I saw they had put up telephone lines on poles and that a line led to a big house 5,000 yards away with a big haystack outside, where soldiers went, so I knew this must be @ station of importance, shelled it, destroying the house and bolting the Germans first out of the haystack to the outbuildines and then out of them to their billets.
I was once hit by a shrapnel bullet, which struck the leather strap of my Sam Browne belt and 80 only bruised me and for which I thank God. Every Sunday-evening I gather my Church of England
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