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And I'm running from shell-hole to shell-hole in their wake, calling for mummy.
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Here, too, he saw for the first time a big and quite recent shell-hole, for the Russian guns were searching out the position.
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From one shell-hole to another he wormed his way, till he struck an old ruinous communication trench which led in the right direction.
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They are lying now out on the battle-field; some in a little grave dug and blessed by their chaplain, who loves them all as if they were his own children; others stiff and stark with staring eyes, hidden in a shell-hole where they had crept to die ...
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He wrote this from a shell-hole during a battle in 1916 and this is what he said.
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In 1918 he was blown up and buried in a shell-hole near Caudry, and that left him with a bad nervous breakdown, lasting, on and off, for two years.
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I read messages and wrote out the relief orders by the light of a blazing tree, which had fallen across the shell-hole then being occupied by Battalion headquarters.
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The personnel eventually thought fit to take shelter in an adjacent shell-hole until the Hun had finished his unpleasant pranks.
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There is nothing for it but to remain crouched in a friendly shell-hole, which affords a little protection, until the storm blows over or to risk the chances of being hit in the open.
Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery
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An auxiliary wire tapped into the main F.O.O. line is led to another pill-box, now to be used as a new infantry headquarters for the time being, and the party comes under the fire of a hostile machine gun emplacement, which necessitates their lying in a shell-hole for a while.
Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery
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