Item 02: Leslie Kemnitz Stuart diary, 4 March-28 December 1916 - Page 111
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[Page 111]
[Monday 10 April]
Our post is known as Emma Post it is a fort behind the first line. This part of the firing line is known as Bois Greniers [Bois Grenier].
Just here it is an afternoon tea party to Gallipoli, except for a dozen bullets from a machine Gun we haven't had a thing near us. We are only about 400 yds from the Germans & we walk about as we like over the parapets & all.
Of course the shell fire is very much worse but they have sent none near us today & it is just as well as we are absolutely open to shrapnel & one good shell would nearly get the lot of us.
The country here is quite flat with our guns & theirs on high ground at the back of the positions.
Ruined villages & tall square clumps of leafless trees are a feature of note round here. The trenches in our post are very solid but afford no protection against shrapnel as they are shallow & wide while the communication trenches are murder.