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was made by rats. Later on when I got onto a top bunk, my head was about 10 inches from the roof, and there was one poor old devil of a rat, who must have had asthma, for he wheezed and coughed like a bulldog, I felt quite sorry for him. After a time however the beastly noise he made kept me awake, and I hit the roof with a stick, but bless you he didn't mind it, for he went on contentedly with his wheezing, and the others with their cooing. They were used to heavy shells bursting, and the only thing the stick did was to bring down a lot of dirt and filth onto my face. However I soon fell asleep, awakened now and then by a rat running over me and round my head. It really is extraordinary how quickly one gets accustomed to things of this sort. The second night I took the rats for granted, and slept the sleep of the Just - by that I mean I slept like a top having a clear conscience.

Close to our Dugout ([illegible] Support Line) is [illegible] Cave where the bulk of our Cmy were. This is a deep cave with 3 outlets.

Close to it was a square where we had an anti aircraft gun and in the event of an attack it was intended to hold the East Line of this square as a "line of resistance".

The last day in supports, a supernumerary major came up with the advance posts of the Relieving Battn. It was his first visit to the Trenches, and in showing him round we just arrived at the square, when Fritz took it into his head to shell it, and for 5 minutes the air was thick with shells, and the blast of the explosions once or twice nearly blew my steel helmet off. The major was

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 5 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1917.

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