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Mr. Hatch describes getting lost after taking a wrong turn in the trenches at the Somme, his Officer being mortally wounded, and scrambling back to his trench minus his kit.
He couldn’t understand what I wanted.
Mr. Savage describes sweeping a captured trench and taking a very modest souvenir from a captured German soldier.
They had a good business...oeufs and chips.
Mr. Savage describes an amusing remedy for lack of shelter while on leave, and discusses how friendly local women sold oeufs (eggs) and chips to the soldiers.
My great coat never dried the whole time I was there.
Mr. Savage describes being in the trenches for the first time, and some aspects of what life in the trenches was like.
You seldom saw a shattered cemetery.
Mr. Savage describes some divine inspiration in locating a safe place to sleep.
Escaping under the barbed wire.
Mr. Savage describes his barbed wire repair crew coming under machine gun attack, and his efforts to get his crew back to the safety of their trench.
He was crying, scared to death!
Mr. Savage describes the circumstances of his being wounded during a barrage at Albert, and being treated in the Casualty Clearing Station.
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