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Dan Snow's History Hit

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The War Isn't Over, but We've Still Got Battles to Fight

At the end of the battle, i had 12 fewer in my company than i started with. The number of toms who were reporting sick at the regimental aid posts began to increase. And that worried me, because if they got casse back, for any reason, back to ajax bay, the odds of getting them back were quite slim. I said, run. No one goes sik to the regimental a post without first seeing my company sergeant,. He was a super chap, and he just knew which tom, perhaps an arm round the shoulder. And then perhaps others who instead needed a sharp pencil up the nose. That was the issue. So at that time,

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