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The impact of the driven air was very strong at 200 yards away & the crashing rending screaming whining shells of every calibre hurtling through darkness is indescribable. The noise was deafening eclipsing all speech for a time.
The raiders went over but I feel it was a futile effort, they were met at the enemy front line by a terrible barrage of shrapnel & bombs & after wading waist deep in water & mud were compelled to retire leaving their dead for the time in no mans land. They got most of their wounded in & also most of their dead.
The Par. boys were pitiable objects, sodden wet clothes, caked from Head to feet with slimy mud, bleeding wounds and shell shocked nerves.
We had about 25 through our station. We were in an old stable as a dressing station with scarcely any protection but fortunately we were rather out of