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Category: Wounds/Wounded: Provision for
H.A.Hammick (Gall) Letter 8.6.15. "Scratch" from a rifle bullet. 16.6.15. Wounded in arm by shrapnel bullet whilst "sitting reading".
Category: Discipline/Indiscipline
G.S.Sanders (GS) 29.11.14. Orderly Sgt. ordered to put himself under arrest. "He is sitting making up his charge
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Senior Officers and Staff
R.Savory (Gallipoli) Letter 11-12.6.15 writes with disdain of the "Powers that be, sitting in their comfortable dug-outs,
Category: Weather - Extremes
W.A.Rigden (GS) Diary 1916-1918 p13, Rain. P37, ground frozen several feet. P117, effect on digging/sitting areas. P111, Lying in inches of water.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Attitudes under Shellfire/Danger
R. E. Wilson (GS) letter 128, 26.9.17.- describes sitting in a pill box under shellfire, letter 131, 29-9.17 - being bombed.
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Category: Pioneer Battalion Work
R.J.Bevington (GS) Letters: 24 (Jan.1915). "Basil joined the pioneers, volunteers being asked for, men with bad feet having first refusal as they do not have to sit in the trenches".
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Category: Trench Conditions
W.Spencer (GS) Many Refs. See summary of letters eg. Letter 11 - not as cosy as described in newspapers "Stands or sits in a cramped position ... no shelter ... mud ...".
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Category: Boredom
J.M.Mayne (GS) 2nd Lt. Letter of 9.12.14. "Practically nothing doing ... the Infantry sit in their trenches their fires and spend their time improving their trenches or occasional pot shooting at the Germans ... The shelling of aeroplanes is the only thing that gives ue any excitement".
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Category: Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Decorations - Attitudes Towards
F.A. Corfield (GS) Disappointed at wife's reaction. Letter 6.1.17. Letter 2.7.17 'You can't get it sitting on your backside at the W.O '. Insulted by the offer of an O.B.E. which he did accept post-war.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
E.A.Packe (GS) Algerian troops "awfully amusing. They shoot at any blooming thing that moves". Troops got sick of sitting and arranged their own attack on the Germans with out recourse to their officers. Gruesome souvenir. Letter 27.9.14.
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Category: Health, Fitness, Cleanliness and Disease
P.L.Ogley (GS). Memoirs Book 1. - Caught mange from a horse - treated by sitting in a bath of sulphur, p52-53. P117-120, 31.3.17 - A B2 man upgraded to A1 on the eve of embarkation "marvelled at the amount of strength my pal had
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