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just splendid the way our guns keep going. It is just a roar 

 all the time." 



September 14. — " I think it is quite possible you may get 

 this letter late and may have to wait a long time for others." 



September 16.—" I was up yesterday morning at 5 and 

 on the move by 5.45. I had a two hours' walk, and took 

 up my abode in a crater of a German mine where we had a 

 very rough dressing-station ; we were very busy. It was awful 

 getting the wounded down, over a very rough country full of 

 shell-holes. Some of the men must have been four or five hours 

 on the journey. We had at least ten men hit while bringing 

 them down, and that means pain for the wounded they are 

 helping." 



September 17. — " This is Sunday, I believe, but I have not 

 realised it at all and have no services, have arranged none. We 

 are trying to clear the battlefield. Being very antique, I always 

 have a soft job. Ingram (a doctor) was collecting with the 

 stretcher-bearers and bringing the wounded to me. I was in 

 charge of the stretcher-bearers from K. S.L.I, headquarters to 

 the dressing-station. We had rather a disastrous evening. I 

 got two lots down and was back in the King's Shropshire Light 

 Infantry headquarters by ten o'clock. Ingram had just gone 

 off again, leaving word I was to keep all his stretcher-bearers 

 who came in till he returned. 



" About 10.45 the Corporal with his party came and reported 

 that Ingram had crawled off by himself and had not returned. 

 Murray sent off an officer and one man, also Ingram's Corporal, 

 to see if they could find out anything. They got right up to the 

 German lines and could see the enemy, and they are rather 

 afraid that in the dark Ingram went right into the German lines. 

 I do hope he is all right and at worst a prisoner. He is such a 

 good chap ; many have got the V.C. for a great deal less than 

 he has done. 



" I did not get back till 6.30 this morning. I had a good 

 three hours' sleep. In a few minutes will be off to the dressing- 

 station. I shall probably be back early to-day." 



These were the last words he wrote. He died in No-Man's- 



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