Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 93
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with walking wounded & prisoners.
On returning via Ypres I saw a large number of these latter enjoying a great meal of white bread & cheese. The poor devils were ravenous & I am pleased to say our fellows treated them kindly - not as enemies, but as fallen heroes: for indeed these men were; for our mighty artillery bombardment fairly tore the earth into furrows & literally combed it. God knows how anyone could escape it unless in the safety of the impregnable Pill boxes. We returned to Steenvorde at 7 pm; but It was nearly one oclock before we had developed our records of this glorious day a day that shall never die in the Annals of our history.
21st Yesterday I should have made mention of the magnificent work done by our aeroplanes, which kept on bombing & harrassing the enemy & preventing him from coming over our