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The Great War As I Saw It

CHAPTER XVII
8/18

I gave him the best information I could.
Not far from me, at Arriane Dump, the Chaplain's Service established a coffee stall, and there men who were going up to or coming from the line could get coffee, biscuits and cigarettes at all hours.

The neighbourhood had now become so safe that little huts were being run up in various places.

I asked our C.R.E.to build me a church, and, to my great joy, an officer and some men were detailed to put up a little structure of corrugated iron.

At one end, over the entrance door, there was a belfry in which was hung a good sized German gas bell found in the trenches on our advance.

Surmounting the belfry, was a cross painted with luminous paint.


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