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men who the Doctor said were still alive,
although most of them looked quite dead,
and many were actually dead when we got
them down here, and many have died since.
I don’t think there are more than about half
of them here now. We also found several
Boches alive. We wanted to carry down our
men first, but both the Curé and the Mayor
said we must take them in turn as we found
them. I wish we had not done as we were
told; if it had not been for that, poor Jean
would not have been lying there now amongst
all the dead Boches. I shall never dare to
tell the truth to Josephine, for she will never
forgive me. Jean’s body was one of the
last we found. It was I who found him with
a bayonet thrust clean through his chest.
When I came back to fetch his body the others
had already buried him by mistake. The
Mayor had said that all the dead must be
buried the same night, and they had all been
heaped together in the big abandoned
trenches and earth shovelled over them.
I shall never dare to tell Josephine the truth,
for she will never forgive me. Maybe it is
not so in your country, but with us our women
folk want to know the spot where their sons
are lying and want to put a cross and some
flowers on their graves. And poor Josephine
will never know where to put her flowers and
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