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It was enfilade fire from German batteries. But often it happened according to the way of that telephone conversation in the tent by Bronfay Farm. The difference between British soldiers and German soldiers crawling over shell-craters or crouching below the banks of a sunken road was no more than the difference between two tribes of ants.
The Battalion in this locality was in touch with the French, from whom the officers managed to secure some of the French ration wine which proved very acceptable. On the 30th the Battalion moved to a place by Fricourt, and pitched a camp which it left two days later for a bivouac area by Bronfay Farm, near Carnoy. From this place the officers went forward on reconnaissance.
On the 13th the Battalion was relieved and the men, tired out, slowly wended their way down Death Valley to Maricourt, passing many corpses, and then to the bivouac area near Bronfay Farm they had left about ten days before. Many who had marched away in the fullness of their health and strength did not return.
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