1982-006_LTR_1915.12.31_2
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- [Centre:] 2 As a rule they are a peaceable bunch and believe would'tn fire a shot of rifle or [artillery?] unless we did. The biggest [illegible] we have yet seen occured on Christmas eve. We started in & they replied & for about three hours it was like hell let lose. I must not go into details because of the Censor, nor explain the reason for it Guy Paul & I were temporally seperated. I was on guard at a junction of a communication trench at the time & could see shells bursting all round: You can hear the screech & rush as the shells go over & it kicks up so much racket you can hardly hear yourself speak. There was a solitary chap in a bay near to me and I heard his groan follow the bursting of a German shell that struck particularly close & showered me with dirt. Poor chap! he was a married man with wife & kids. I suppose he is dead now! - We [can't?] get to know. I bandaged his head with the field dressing bandage that every man carries in the hem of his coat & then the streacher bearers came & with much labour got him out & took him away. It is a hard sight to find one of our chaps, with whom you have lived for months & were talking to or laughing with a few moments before, - to find him bleeding from two or three holes in his head & lying unconcious in the mud. But soldiers have to be callous to loosing their fellows and one soon forgets, even the same day, almost except [the?] poor chap laid out, be a special [illegible] & then it is very hard indeed & affects one deeply There was no difference in our fare for Christmas day except the delicious milk choclate that
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