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Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks

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we used to glance at the maps in the paper showing changes in the front line.
 
we used to glance at the maps in the paper showing changes in the front line.
  
How these maps and the changes in them are our very being - it is a most extraordinary thing but just at this moment there is neither a shell nor a bullet coming over our trench though a few minutes ago I was nearly put out of commission by a big shell which exploded very close - The concussion gives one a very peculiar feeling & if it is repeated two or three times is bound to have some effect whether one can disguise it or not.
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How these maps & the changes in them are our very being - it is a most extraordinary thing but just at this moment there is neither a shell nor a bullet coming over our trench though a few minutes ago I was nearly put out of commission by a big shell which exploded very close - The concussion gives one a very peculiar feeling & if it is repeated two or three times is bound to have some effect whether one can disguise it or not.
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BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.

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we used to glance at the maps in the paper showing changes in the front line.

How these maps & the changes in them are our very being - it is a most extraordinary thing but just at this moment there is neither a shell nor a bullet coming over our trench though a few minutes ago I was nearly put out of commission by a big shell which exploded very close - The concussion gives one a very peculiar feeling & if it is repeated two or three times is bound to have some effect whether one can disguise it or not.

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.