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Category: Somme - Battle of; July 1st - November 1916

D.J.Gregory (GS) Diary 10.7.16 - attack on Mametz Wood: "Entered wood and were greeted with machine gun fire. Dense undergrowth made movement difficult - walls of young saplings not thinned for two years". " . . . our work was to drive and clear wood 220 acres in extent".

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the Germans

P.H.Rawson (GS) Letters 35, 66,109, 220. "I cannot understand anyone wish to speak to a d Bosche after the murder of Miss Cavell and heaps of things much worse" ... I think they ought to kill all those blighted Bosches that are interned" (and others). Also Letter 64 - comparison of German aircraft to RFC performance.

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