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Updated: May 9, 2025
The mist cleared away, showing the German line, grim and formidable as ever! Another day had dawned. It was on such a dawn as this that poor Jack L , my platoon-sergeant, was killed. The fog had lifted a little, revealing an enemy patrol to our listening post.
They then commenced an attack on the house supported by machine-gun fire, which proved a far more serious affair, as in the house itself we lost two men killed and some wounded, while in the trench we lost two valuable men, Platoon-Sergeant Abelarde and Lance-Corporal McGurk.
We remained there until 4. Then we marched back.... "I had three sergeants with my platoon to-day Sergeant Clews, the platoon-sergeant, Sergeant Dawson, and Sergeant Baldwin. The latter I like very much; he is a very pleasant youth; he was a corporal in 7th Platoon when I first joined the Battalion.
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