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"We're going back to Rouez Wood," he answered. "The Westshires are lining up now behind the canal." "Are they going to hold it?" I asked. "Don't know," was the reply; "only know our orders." "Had many casualties?" I asked again. "No! only a few from snipers. We weren't in the counter-attack." They swung round and passed over the railway bridge, making west.
"Oh, yes, a major in the Westshires; but he had to leave the Army because of his health, and his pension is very small, and mother had so little money. I sometimes think it killed her trying to do everything on nothing." "Were you quite small when she died?" Fay asked in a sympathetic whisper. "Oh, no; I was nearly twelve, and quite as big as I am now.
But it wasn't a brilliant success, and I soon left my dug-out and strolled along to C Company. "The idea was for A and C Companies to attack first, followed by B and D companies. A battalion of the Westshires was in support to us. "C Company Officer's dug-out was not a mental haven of rest.
"I couldn't get to the Battery, sir the enemy are round it, between it and our infantry," began Dumble in cut-up tones. "The nearest I got was in a trench held by the 7th Westshires. An officer told me that an advanced party of the enemy came over the crest about 12.30. They fired Very lights in response to a Hun contact plane that flew towards the switch-trench leading N.E. towards the battery.
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