Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 94
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[Page 94]
than anything else for they go off with an ear splitting crash which makes the earth tremble for a long way round & will put the fear of God in a nervous man, they are just an iron case & the end which the detonator fits in is made of wood, they are very roughly made but of course, they are good enough for their work.
While they pasted us with their "oil drums our Stokes" were very busy & shot bombs like lightning into them, they are far smaller than Fritz's oil drums but far superior, they are about the finest bomb going & when once they get the range are very deadly.
The 2nd Bde seem to have done a lot of work in these trenches, & they wanted it badly too.
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