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Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks

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From there we find our way under shell & MG fire for many a weary mile of trench & utterly broken up ground, dying of thirst, very hungry & very shaken & [must hurry?] back to this place of rest were [sic] only occasional shells bother us.
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From there we find our way under shell & MG fire for many a weary mile of trench & utterly broken up ground, dying of thirst, very hungry & very shaken & must [illegible] back to this place of rest were only occasional shells bother us.
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On getting back we get hot tea, the first hot food for many days & something to eat & are then able to stretch ourselves out a luxurious full length it may be on wet muddy ground with only a coat on a ground sheet but still at full length & let us ourselves go to sleep.
  
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On getting back we get hot tea, the first hot food for many days & something to eat & are then able to stretch ourselves out a luxurious full length, it may be on wet muddy ground with only a coat on a ground sheet but still at full length & let us ourselves go to sleep.
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Well that is already past & we are now preparing to clean up a very hot job wh others have failed in but it is quite poss. that we shall not be needed to attack.
  
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Well that is already past & we are now preparing to clear up a very hot job which others have failed in but it is quite possible that we shall not be needed to attack.
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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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From there we find our way under shell & MG fire for many a weary mile of trench & utterly broken up ground, dying of thirst, very hungry & very shaken & must [illegible] back to this place of rest were only occasional shells bother us.

On getting back we get hot tea, the first hot food for many days & something to eat & are then able to stretch ourselves out a luxurious full length it may be on wet muddy ground with only a coat on a ground sheet but still at full length & let us ourselves go to sleep.

Well that is already past & we are now preparing to clean up a very hot job wh others have failed in but it is quite poss. that we shall not be needed to attack.

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