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==1916==
*Situated in hut billets in Hénencourt Wood involved in fatigue duties.<ref>Fatigue duty is the employment of manual labour assigned to military men that does not necessitate the use of weaponry.</ref><ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1916]]</ref>
*Private M. Timmins writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]:
:{{quote-left}}Dear Sir, I am writing these few lines thanking you for the parcel I received yesterday, also “Juno” and the customers of the “Black Cock”, Distington. We are now out of the trenches for a rest a few miles behind the firing line, living in canvas huts in a wood surrounded by nothing else but mud. The Old Toms, pipe and tobacco came in handy, and I divided the cigs between my pals. Again thanking you and wishing your paper every success.{{quote-right}} <ref>''[[In Canvas Huts Surrounded by Mud]]'' – [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[10 March]], 1916.</ref>
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