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grave later on with his steel helment on it
with a bullet hole in it.
When I came to I found myself in an irrigation
ditch and I had an awful headache. I moved along
the ditch for some time and then I had to lay
down as my head ached so, so I decided to not
remain in the ditch as the Germans would perhaps
be using it for cover so I moved of into the
wheat field as it was about knee deep and
it gave good cover. after I had layed down
for a while I felt better and I started along
again [crossed out] whith [end crossed out] with my rifle with no stock
but I could fire it if be had to. after I had
gone some distance I heard voices so ducked
into a little clump of bushes and they got
closer then I recognized their voices as english
so I spoke to them and one was Arthur [?Overby?]
Harperville P.O. Manitoba and he had a machine
gun with no ammunition as it takes three men
to man it an carry its ammunition. The other
man was an English man with a [?revolver?] so we
werent very well armed but we hadnt gone very
far before we found a rifle and small pack with
food in it that one of our boys had left for some
reason. we moved on in the darkness for a
few hundred yards when we made out a road
and as we approached it we made out in the
opposite ditch the form of three steel helmets and
about that time I heard the word Punch and it
startled us so that I couldnt think of the pass word