Thomas Bromley Shaw, item 78

• October 25, 2018 17:46:53 Sarika Jain

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  one to see the company officer
  

  he has a tenor horn at liberty
  

  but it will not be wise to
  

  see him untill things
  

  settle down a bit, the
  

  instruments were left at
  

  a place in a big hurry
  

  or no doubt I should
  

  have been in the Band.
  

  I have prayed every night
  

  that I should get into the
  

  band. Eating those hard
  

  biscuits I lost a false tooth
  

  on Thursday & another Friday
  

  so I went to see Doctor to day
  

  Set 6/4/18. he said they could not
  

  do anything at present, but when
  

  they commenced sending dental
  

  cases, they would send me that
  

  
  

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  might mean months.
  

  Sat tea time moved by motor
  

  then a terrible march cannot
  

  be described. Then the trenches
  

  we marched through shell holes
  

  filled with water sunken
  

  roads & raining all the
  

  time. Bullets whistling
  

  by us. then the trenches
  

  you have not the very faintest
  

  idea what they are like
  

  over the top of the outtees
  

  in mud and slime. I
  

  am wet through up to the
  

  thighs. Sat shivering in a
  

  hole in side of trench
  

  till daylight. then went
  

  on top but on account
  

  of shelling had to get
  

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