April 1917Everywhere they got posted, things got busy. Either that or they got posted wherever it was getting busy. Some things didn’t bear thinking about. Bullecourt was a disaster. There was a rumour going around that headquarters had made some mistakes with it. That sounded a bit close to the truth. They should have waited for tanks or they should have taken out the machine-gun posts first. Whatever the official story was, they never wanted to be in another battle like that, not ever. It was too bloody dangerous, as Bert Carter confided to Harry.
Some days, just going back down the line for a bath was terrifying. Billets were mostly fine. You had to be really unlucky to get hit there. The back area camps were the safest, unless you got leave for Paris or London, where it was so safe yo
