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He said, ‘You go down to the village and look in the window of the Post Office’. Well, I did so and in the window, course there was a telegram, written in German of course, and as near as I can remember the German today it said, ‘Der kreig ist fertig in der schuzengraben’ - In other words in English, ‘The war is finished in the trenches’. When I read that I went straight back to the Lager, that was where we was billeted, kept, in the Lager, all our fellows were there, got back and I told them I said, ‘It’s finished boys’. I said,’ We’ve had it. We’re all right now, it’s all over.’ |