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[Continued from page 47] a shell hole. We were taken into an apple orchard and deployed I man every 5 yds apart and along a small creek. The German artillery kept up a continous shellfire 1 landing every 20 seconds for 2 days and 1 night. We advanced through another barbed wire entanglement and dug into 150 yards of trenches and captured & connected them the German trenches. I stood guard (2) twice shivering in wet clothes and a flare light or 2 going up each minute almost all night and we thought we would be seen surely but luck was with us We retreated from this trench.

Sunday Nov. 10th 1918. 4 A.M. to the other side of the hill where we got out of the range of a machine