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coming home, one after the other after their days work, we had a long chat with a Sergeant who explained that the Pilot's in the single seated Machines only do at on an average of about 20 to 30 hours flying & are either killed, wounded or taken prisoner as their Machines travel at a speed of about 130 miles per hour & pilot the bigger ones over the lines & necessarily they have to do a lot of fighting, as it was nearly 7 Pm & the light was drawing in we saw the lights which were shot up from a Gun near by as a Signal to other Machines returning, after seeing all we could see we started on our homeward walk & arrived back at in Camp at 8 Pm when we boiled the kettle (A Petrol Fire) & had some Toast & Cocoa for Supper & then turned in after a great day of excitement.
Monday. October 1st 1917
I was booked on duty at 4 Pm (16 oclock) on the shunter & after shunting about