With Several Men, I Was Detailed to Collect Bits and Pieces of the Dead From Walls and Trees

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Unlike a lot of the men who came back from the First World War, William Hewing, or Bill as he was known, talked a lot about what he had seen and done during the years he spent at the front. He thought the world should never forget the horrors of the War To End All Wars. Here, in the last of his memoirs, Corporal Hewing remembers the dreadful winters he had to endure and the atrocious tasks assigned to him.

strain for men. Our line was blown up 13 times in nine days, many times I had just left the front line minutes before.

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With Several Men, I Was Detailed to Collect Bits and Pieces of the Dead From Walls and Trees

strain for men. Our line was blown up 13 times in nine days, many times I had just left the front line minutes before.

We did 12 days in the line and four resting at Mount St Eloi. Here we could clean up and have a longneeded rest.

We did 12 days in the line and four resting at Mount St Eloi. Here we could clean up and have a longneeded rest.

Casualties were numerous. The wounde...

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