I don't recall this patrol but by the note written on back of photo, wecame to grief! Not unusual when it often depended on who got out and inplace first, us or Charlie. Case of first in best dressed.

You can see hanging on my belt a bag of Owen magazines, it looks like awater bottle carrier. Two grenades on the flak jacket, and perhaps more onthe belt behind my back. The chapeau tonight is a woolen 'caps comforter'by name, perhaps it was getting cold! Behind my elbow is an ammunitionbox, and what appears to be a rack of shovels, the soldiers 2nd bestfriend. The bunker tells that we are on the rear side of the hill, out ofCharlie's sight.