Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 21

• February 1, 2018 17:44:30 Annick Rodriguez

  anyway we were glad to get away from here

  if only to get away from the Bats as when

  you woke up in the night you could feel

  there cold Feet walking  over your face

  so we went on another 25 Kilo March

  to a Place called La Bouviere and

  it was getting very near the line

  now as we could here the gun Fire

  much Blainer even Machine gun Fire

  we were Lucky enough to be billeted

  here about 2 Weeks attached to a

  Farm in the Barn where we could

  win a lot of Eggs as the Fowls used

  to lay there egg on our beds of

  Straw and we very often came back

  at Dinner time and Found a few

  do that helped  to digest our bully

  and biscuits from here our Brigade

  started moving up the line one

  Batalion every 3 or 4 Days it soon

  came to our turn and we marched

  another 20 kilos to the line by

  way of Bethune up to a Part of the

  line called Richburg Le Vue just to

  the Right of Neuve Chappel and we were

  put in some Barns here we were now

  within Bullet Range as when we got

  in our Barns the snipers Bullets

  from the Line whizzed Past our Ears

  it was getting very uncomfortably close 

  and they were Dropping a few shells

  on the Roads now we were about a

  1000 yds from the Front line and the

  Barns we were in properly Tumbled

  
  

• February 1, 2018 17:37:06 Annick Rodriguez

  anyway we were glad to get away from here

  if only to get away from the Bats as when

  you woke up in the night you could feel

  there cold Feet walking  over your face

  so we went on another 25 Kilo March

  to a Place called La Bouviere and

  it was getting very near the line

  now as we could here the gun Fire

  much Blainer even Machine gun Fire

  we were Lucky enough to be billeted

  here about 2 Weeks attached to a

  Farm in the Barn where we could

  win a lot of Eggs as the Fowls used

  to lay there egg on our beds of

  Straw and we very often came back

  at Dinner time and Found a few

  do that helped  to digest our bully

  and biscuits from here our Brigade

  started moving up the line one

  Batalion every 3 or 4 Days it soon

  came to our turn and we marched

  another 20 kilos to the line by

  way of Bethune up to a Part of the

  line called

  
  

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:36:25 Annick Rodriguez

  anyway we were glad to get away from here

  if only to get away from the Bats as when

  you woke up in the night you could feel

  there cold Feet walking  over your face

  so we went on another 25 Kilo March

  to a Place called La Bouviere and

  it was getting very near the line

  now as we could here the gun Fire

  much Blainer even Machine gun Fire

  we were Lucky enough to be billeted

  here about 2 Weeks attached to a

  Farm in the Barn where we could

  win a lot of Eggs as the Fowls used

  to lay there egg on our beds of

  Straw and we very often came back

  at Dinner time and Found a few

  do that helped  to digest our bully

  and biscuits from here our Brigade

  started moving up the line one

  Batalion every 3 or 4 Days it soon

  came to our turn and we marched

  
  

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:33:44 Annick Rodriguez

  anyway we were glad to get away from here

  if only to get away from the Bats as when

  you woke up in the night you could feel

  there cold Feet walking  over your face

  so we went on another 25 Kilo March

  to a Place called La Bouviere and

  it was getting very near the line

  now as we could here the gun Fire

  much Blainer even Machine gun Fire

  we were Lucky enough to be billeted

  
  

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• February 1, 2018 17:31:54 Annick Rodriguez

  anyway we were glad to get away from here

  if only to get away from the Bats as when

  you woke up in the night you could feel

  there cold Feet walking  over your face

  so we went on another 25 Kilo March

  to a Place called La Bouviere and

  it was getting very near the line

  now as we could here the gun Fire

  much 

  
  

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