The Bosche has left behind him concrete dugouts

TCD MS 11290/37 folio 1 recto

TCD MS 11290/37 folio 1 recto

7th October [1918]
Dear Mother we are now in a nice quiet part evacuated by the Bosche the only objection I have to it is that we do absolutely no work. The Bosche has left behind him an enormous number of reinforced concrete dugouts mostly about 4 ft thick in which we are now living. They must have taken him years to make and been very costly in every way. The wonder is that though he has gone to so much useless work on concrete dugouts he has never made any attempt even 7 or 8 miles back from his old line to cultivate the land. Partridge are very plentiful though you dont see them very often as the cover is so thick they seem to like old shell holes & weedy desolate land which is a queer taste