2479_1982-006_LTR_1915.10.23_010
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- [Upper right annotation:] 10 But to get back to those field manoeuvres - for I want to give you a glimpse of a bit of Army life as there is nothing much else to write about <del>& to</del> <sup>I must</sup> fill up a few pages otherwise Papa will thank me again for more correspondance which he never got! In these battles we have it is very hard to know who would really win but in the fighting positions <del>I</del> we held over the valley I spoke about a little while back we naturally had the best of it as we dominated a <sup>very high</sup> ridge & they had to come up & attack us. We have blank ammunition to give the right effect & the fight usually ends in a bayonet charge. After this we got a much needed breakfast & then an other tedious & tiring day & a rear guard action is perhaps fought. And if we are lucky we form the "Reserves" & therefore do not have to put our night in fighting And even if there is no fighting at night at all one unfortunate battalion has to do the Outpost work <del>up</del> which is a sort of screening fan of groups of sentries & armed groups who have to keep armed & on the alert all night in case of suprise attacks; & there are the "patrolling groups & reconnoitring parties & so on. On a wet night when you are shivering <del>&</del> it
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