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Will not called for. Three motor ambulance take twenty six of us & a captain & batman to our A.D.S. which is the ruins of an old brick house on the other side of the town of Ypres. I am in the third car & the ruins of Ypres is a sight never to be forgotten, Fritz still shells it regular as he knows we have troops billeted in the basements & in dugouts there. Our guns close to Bedford House give me my first scare when they open up on Fritz. our party is sent to Railway Canal dugouts & I am to be in the first four of our section to go up into the line. O. Rawle of C section got a machine gun bullet thro his foot. Fritz takes a couple of pot shots at Bedford house but as there is so little of it standing he does no damage. finish my letter I was writing & give it to D.R. Anthony to take back to the M.D.S. Sat Aug 26 Breakfast at Bedford House.