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 May 24th

Monday May the 24th was then the Day of Armistice it had been agreed that from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. hostilities were to be suspended mainly to bury the dead which are a menace to the health of the soldiers. Jacko the Sniper was dealing out death and destruction until the last second; indeed it seemed to me some two or three minutes after 7.30 when they cry "Stretcher Bearer" arose from a spot opposite my dug-out. Two of those who responded to the cry were wounded – one I believe fatally. Then peace. What a relief! Burial parties, doctors padres