Letters from Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott to his family, July - October 1916 - Part 14

appear to be a great many graves
about showing that our loss in killed
outright were not is enormous
as we might expect but shell
holes are everywhere no matter
where you look. I lave made my boys
fill a lot of them in to help keep
the place a little tidy. We have
not yet been in the line here but
it is only a matter of a few days
The 8^th Brigade & the 14^th Brigade
are in the line now & will make the
first attack. Tell Mrs Roberts her

nephew young Stillman is very well
indeed. Eric Walker is still away
ill as is also my Cousin Charlie
Geordie is with the 15^th field Ambulance
& are about 4 miles behind us now
so they are well out of danger.
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