Letters from George Alexander Hugh Murray to his family, 1916 - Part 8

eh if t w a ae in
becks way for we only loss
twenty athepther & not one
killed. In the trip I had a couple
of narrow Iqueds for I pos
but on the stoll helinetith
a peere of high Exploie
shill case & another prece
pured my lost tts below
the ankle but never hoke
the then but close enveye
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my likery
We were relieved on a Thurrsday      
morning by our sister, Battaken
Soe
& then we went to a German
shong hold balled Were hene
for it is titerally covered
+ entangled with were for
to wet till all the uner
came out of the line
 

3
While waiting there, it by an
to rain & then as my buck
would have it) I was told
off with two other N.C. 6 & an
offerer to take 25 men up to
the fiving time to difa hoh
off Fench well in front
the firg line Woll, we sarted
ab 111-45 prm & ploughed throyh
mud & shell hods yards
deep some of them tell w
think the sap we had
to travel along & then the
trouble began, for the sat
was nothing more than
wait deep in flacy merce
& we were given an hour +
half to ger to our objectes
party bost tuch with
The
one another &
gradually
 

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men t ne the drot n
for all the
retterly exhaustio
time we were being subjected
to a continuous shelling
We kept plooding on & rearhed
our coal nearly three hours
late & all out of the party
that arrived were but
privates & my self of Well
there was nothing thre todo
but to turn round & Poba
home (if home you Could
eall at) so around we hirned
& stuggled along till a 92 med
shill explded within a few
Marc. One chap pot severely
thaken the other got hit

in the nor +
off scott free
but
that we had to keep our
 

re ange for the you
X
m
w
phiam
ct
Sir
white t greeng that thy
were sending ap but the shr of
am t

not withort.
more
raedt
Mrs
Ah
i
atode we we
were
walking states of mudl
Sortable We had

scrape
wths
tke
as forth
Wher
ten
Glt
ten
Dt the
aotet
firt
 

that sone we had to stand to
or
8
shwah nne mud of them
then to stap of the saih then
were homth
The Battahon exported to
Abbert that nyght but the
ner
wister did not some
amived at Abfert we

had treatfart
a three hour
bP
n a even

shal
mile mand
tho month
day tll Heo.
we have seen on the rad
for Belyan
when we entrand
pv
I have been tryg t
bit of a
lart
ma
day a
We were reneved by other
Colonal rrements avroo the
Atatr who young
said
 

to sake on
that they were ou
place & have a spott. Wall the
h were omfral
first wiht
obacly but
ont about
since we have teen the ly
i more than 50 cannot
shats have been fired An in
for us to hear for
nmol he
d w
at our ot
vey mont
exploctry
nd that te haven the
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spelt & not the Serthrh banadhion
I would hee to see their hilts
when they wone out for a ffet
espnally aftert rain
will we are in the as and
to there has been on alar
bot nothng came of o
Can four head offrers an
ea
tought to be
te
Ae
you con
 

Iwar take my time f
I have
few days exemptn
o dnt on
account of me have

have bing strkded.
Cbrathers

I have not heard from te
fom for some time but mar
i hard to get isperiably when
the ombol
6
troop
I have havt
not shope
nnce 0
ner

Will Sa

fa
thy mor
fast now so hope

t
e before
all run
from
that come
ermon
Ah Revi
for the per
£2
e
TOMSdy
1ORIA
 

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Handr
19/16
all at some
I received your letter
dated 7/8/16 also one from Since
& another from Mrs Bouthon
so I am setting to to ansver hem
but I do not iee any
chance of getting them portid
whill we are in the trenckes
to make matters
2
worse we are to be in
for over a fortneght & no
mail tgo out.
fona was asking for
correst address well it is the
same as usual but inslead
of puttery F boy Pont P. for
there are only four companies
in a battat
now
have not name from
 

fim o m puy aroen to hs wose
if he was with this Battaton
when it made a charge at
Poyceres tarst after they relieved
us from then about 12B
I have not heard from him
I have only had one litte
from Lis since I came to
Framce though I wish regular
by but I ccannot send my
address as it will not
pass she cenvr.
This is the third different
front I have been of
an this consty & the Flanders
live has been far the
quieter for you can
hrlen for homs & not

hear a sho
find
this is the lene that wa
aracked up to be the hobtnt
on the werksen from
here is onry one borr
 

oat fo 1
Mr hae
has but of you almays
yas Ledmer about
samyo
with you well you are
safe
unparative
we have gast been innced
with fun book roo
the shighs so you
up to
ran goers the state of
courty now &
vi
ar anay shol
ro
I am not broking forward
to it wish any eclede
all about is swvaryy

I am qit well

all
at home are the same
from your
son

Brother
t