After the Cambrai affair of November 1917 our company came out of the
line, but we had to salvage some very large and heavy shells.
We had been carrying the shells in our arms for about an hour when I
heard a fed-up Cockney turn to the sergeant and say: "'Ere 'ave I been
duckin' me nut for years from these blinkin' fings---blimey, and nah
I'm nursin' 'em!"---_Rfn. Elliott (late 17th K.R.R.C.), 9 Leghorn Road,
Harlesden, N.W._