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very easy job being on guard, especially so when it means resting all day to morrow.
This is Easter Sunday. I will remember it because it is such a fine day, in fact it is the best day I have experienced since I have been in France, & also because I am on guard to day.
There is great aeroplane activity today. The enemy's planes frequently come over, and are well peppered by our archies. Their path across the sky is dotted with little balls of white smoke from our shells bursting around them in an endeavour to hit them or failing that keep them at high elevation so as to prevent them observing.
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I heard this evening that the Germans brought down one of our observation balloons at Bacull. It was seen in flames from here. This afternoon a lot of reinforcements came in for the 9, 10 & 11 Brigades also reinforcements for the Engineers & Pioneers.
Monday April 9.1917. Easter Monday
Early this morning it commenced to rain, and