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View of loose item on ScrpBk1_06-verso: typescript of letter written by Georges Destrubé for his family, May 2-25, 1917. Page 5 of 19.

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  • [start page] - 5 - whole afternoons and evenings in villages or towns more or less distant. There were the sentries and military police to doge and sometimes we ran slap into our own officers who were also out for their bit of fun - the difference being they were allowed which we were not. The heads had a good idea that these things happened but we usually managed to keep to the 11th Commandment - "Thou shalt not be found out" - which is what chiefly counts in the Army. May 9th 1917 When I got back I heard a funny yarn about poor Guy when he was at the base (Etaples) on a Machine Gun Course. There the police are ver strict and there are so many that it is hard to dodge them. Guy managed it alright however by putting up a crown on his arm (the bade of a sergeant-major) which he got from a sergeant-major of the 22nd, who was at the base at the time and they spent many great evenings together down town, Guy remaining unchallenged. But there came a climax, for one day Guy being a bit tight had lost his hat and his clothes were in an awful condition, also he had on a pair of topboots he had got from a dead German Officer. In this guise and with no hat He cut a strange figure, especially in so regimental an area as the Base, and so far from the line, - result that he was followed by the police and when they heard his chatting in French they promptly arrested him for a spy, thinking no doubt they had made a grand find. He was released the next day however, but a complaint followed him back to the Battalion, which needless to say Colonel Barker duly overlooked. [end page]
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